Puerto Rico's Homocide Rate and a Little bit More
HI to everyone, I was reading the blog about the New Orleans crime rate and it came up to my mind to show all of you something that probably you would never think of my homeland, Puerto Rico. Well, as great as us the Puerto Ricans say that Puerto Rico is, which in fact it is, there something really bad happening in over there and that is crime. Yes, it is true that the rate in Puerto Rico (http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues2/2005/vol09n03/CBWithHiMrdr.shtml]crime) -with a population close to four million- is higher than all the crime rate in the United States mainland according to the FBI. In the 2004, there were reported 790 murders in the island, going over New York's 571 (population of eight million), Los Angeles's 511 (population of four million), and Chicago's 445 (population of three million) crime rates, which in fact are the three largest cities of the mainland. Incorporating some of the class discussion in the information I found it said that Puerto Rico's mean (http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/stat_sim/descriptive/) homicide rate is three times the U.S. mainland and four times Europe’s rate. Out of the 790 murders reported in the 2004, 60% of them are linked with drugs and their trafficking. If any of you would like to find out more about the past rates of crime in Puerto Rico or the plan to reduce this rate that our new governor and superintendent of the police have for the next four years please go to the first link posted in this blog.
Yet, me being a Puerto Rican I have go away a little bit from the main theme of this blog to let all of you know that you should not me scared about this and should visit my homeland. I now that these numbers seem pretty big for an island as small as Puerto Rico (100 miles long by 35 miles wide) and in fact it is, but still there is much more there than just that. In fact Puerto Rico has a lot to offer so I recommend all of you to visit the page that I’m going to link next and see some videos and facts about my beautiful island. So, don’t hesitate and go to Puerto Rico (http://www.gotopuertorico.com/index.php?language=english).
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How easy is it to get around Puerto Rico without knowing any Spanish?
When kind of professional baseball leagues are there and when do they play (that's the time I would visit)?
On a stats point, the discussion about crime stats in Puerto Rico and New Orleans points out to the importance of thinking about crime, especially murder, in terms of conditional probability. For example, what are the chances of someone being murdered in Puerto Rico? What are the chances of being murdered conditional on being involved in the drug trade? Quite different, I would suspect. Do you see how thinking in terms of conditional probabilities helps make the case that Puerto Rico (or New Orleans) is not as unsafe as the unconditional probabilities suggest? What does the news media focuses on?
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