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Originally Posted by connor.worley
Don't think anyone's joking though - the numbers are objectively bad on paper.
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I don't think anyone is joking, however the statistic being used doesn't fully examine the situation. Yes, a lot of people have been killed, but it doesn't say who/what/where/when/why it happened. I highly doubt there are people running around out to hurt kids in a robotics competition.
For example last year in Chicago there were 425 homicides. This number is significantly more than Detroit (which had 309). The reason Chicago wasn't on the list is because of the massive population.
So a question I have, Is a city "safer" if it has more homicides along with a larger population? Does a place become "safer" because there are more people but on average less are getting shot?
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