M2623 Group assignment Crime rate PDF

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this was where we were finding the amount of crimes per person, per square mile and for certain areas in the united states....

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Group Assignment Crime Rate Names Emma Courtwright The number of violent crimes in 2019 in Youngstown, Ohio and the United States are listed below. Find the population of each and the area of each in square miles. Then find the crime rate per person, per one thousand residents and per square mile. Youngstown Violent crimes: 428 Population: 64,783 Violent crimes Per Person .006

Area: 33.96 square miles

Violent Crimes Per 1,000 residents 6

Violent Crimes Per Square Mile 12.6

Youngstown State is approximately one square mile and has about 12,000 students enrolled. Write a paragraph that could be in the Jambar using the information that you found. Is YSU in danger of violent crimes? In Youngstown there are 6 crimes per 1,000 people, and 12.6 violent crimes per square mile. Here at YSU our demographic is 12,000 students. Meaning 6 out of 1,000 multiplied by 12 gives us 72 violent crimes out of the whole student body. Ohio Violent crimes: 32,723 Violent crimes Per Person

Population: 11.69 million Violent Crimes Per 1,000 residents 3

Area:44,825 square miles Violent Crimes Per Square Mile .73

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United States Violent crimes: 1,245,065 miles Violent crimes Per Person 0.003

Population: 328.2 million Violent Crimes Per 1,000 residents 3

Area: 3.797 million square Violent Crimes Per Square Mile .327

Write a paragraph comparing Youngstown, Ohio and the US crime rates. Does Youngstown sound like a safe city to live? How about Ohio? Does it make more sense to use crimes per person or per square mile when comparing them? Explain

In comparison as a whole the one that seems to be most dangerous would be Youngstown. However if you look at total crimes the us and ohio seem more dangerous. The more dangerous out of the two would happen to be ohio rather than the us when using the violent crimes per square mile....