In my research there is truth to this. I’ve found a couple large cities - I really need to find more - that have more detail homicide stats and good ol’ fashioned ARGUMENTS were the #1 cause of murders. Furthermore, most people knew their murders, and both murderers and victims were most likely to be poor and have an arrest record. Now this is dense city crime so it doesn’t cover all murders every where, but it is a good glimpse of where it is the worse.
Actually, that is another thing to ask why is that? Why is large city crime so much more severe? Case in point Wichita, which is largish city with 386 million people has had between 16 and 30 murder per year in the last 5 years. The town were my parents live in a small town of ~9000 just 15 min east of Wichita and yet have had 1 murder in 10 years (probably longer than that). Is it just averages, that you need X amount of people in one area to increase the likely hood of murder? Is there a tipping point when you have too many poor in one location the likelihood goes up? Does murder beget murder? Does the attitude change to “I better get him before he gets me?”
