Psudo on politics
Map of US Violent Crime Elasticity
Each state is shaded to reflect Violent Crime Elasticity, a term I made up for the extents the state conformed to the national trend of violent crime increasing from about 1960 to 1990, then falling quickly from about 1990 to 2000. States colored red reflected the trend, green state showed essentially no change, and the rest are in between.
I noted that there was an obvious national peak in violence in the early 1990s, but that the states contributed to that peak in a variety of extents ranging from not at all to many hundreds of crimes per 100,000 population. I decided to name the extent to which a state's crime rate changed as part of that national trend, and the name I came up with is "Violent Crime Elasticity."
National violence rate peak graph:
flickr.com/photos/91128695@N07/8298646211/
A comparison of urbanity to elasticity:
flickr.com/photos/91128695@N07/8299411079/
It seems to me that some powerful crime-causing force of society was exerted and that the states were susceptible to that force to varying degrees. (FactCheck.org says it's "a trend criminologists chalked up to 'changes in the crack cocaine market.'" In essence, this map shows which states were hardest hit by the "crack epidemic.")
Map of US Violent Crime Elasticity
Each state is shaded to reflect Violent Crime Elasticity, a term I made up for the extents the state conformed to the national trend of violent crime increasing from about 1960 to 1990, then falling quickly from about 1990 to 2000. States colored red reflected the trend, green state showed essentially no change, and the rest are in between.
I noted that there was an obvious national peak in violence in the early 1990s, but that the states contributed to that peak in a variety of extents ranging from not at all to many hundreds of crimes per 100,000 population. I decided to name the extent to which a state's crime rate changed as part of that national trend, and the name I came up with is "Violent Crime Elasticity."
National violence rate peak graph:
flickr.com/photos/91128695@N07/8298646211/
A comparison of urbanity to elasticity:
flickr.com/photos/91128695@N07/8299411079/
It seems to me that some powerful crime-causing force of society was exerted and that the states were susceptible to that force to varying degrees. (FactCheck.org says it's "a trend criminologists chalked up to 'changes in the crack cocaine market.'" In essence, this map shows which states were hardest hit by the "crack epidemic.")