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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People rarely go to jail for crimes in DC. The prosecution rates are very low.

But also ... guns. Guns are a huge f-ing problem. [/quote]

I live in NoVa and there are guns and shooting ranges everywhere.  They aren’t a problem here.[/quote]

Where do you think they go to , to steal the guns, or buy the stolen guns from? Most are imported from VA.[/quote]

But if guns WERE the problem, Northern VA would have just as much, if not more, crime as DC, since there are wayyyyyyyy more guns in northern VA

But that's not the case, is it? No, it isn't.

Must be SOMETHING else then, huh? [/quote]
It’s the poverty, stupid.[/quote]

Virginia has far more poor people than DC [/quote]
It’s the poverty RATE, stupid.[/quote]

For someone who has no clue WTF they're talking about, you're really fond of calling people stupid. [/quote]Pp is correct about the difference between a rate (or a proportion) and the frequency (or number).  It has to do with what percentage of the population are poor.  Since Virginia has over 8 million people and DC has less than a million people, it wouldn't be surprising if Virginia had a higher number or frequency of poor people.  But it would still be possible for DC to have a higher proportion of people living in poverty than Virginia.

Okay I just did a quick google.  I don't know if these rates are from the same year but it will give you an idea of the difference between proportions and frequencies.  Virginia's poverty rate is around 10% while DC 's poverty rate is around 18%.  Plus the poor in DC are in a much smaller area geographically while Virginia is of course much larger and the poor are more spread out than in DC.  (And of course this is always the problem with comparing DC to states rather than other cities.)

I will say that pp shouldn't have called you stupid, however.  That was not helpful.[/quote]

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