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Such stats can not be used for ANYTHING other than to say that a particular place had MORE or LESS crimes in one particular year over another. Crime/Population comparison is not linear. In other words; to say that a town of 100,000 had 1,000 crimes and a town of 1,000,000 had 10,000 crimes are exactly the same because they have the same percentage, is totally inaccurate. Even the statisticians recognize this, or they wouldn't but the towns into categories of Small town, medium town, large city, under 100,000; 100,000 to 500,000; over 1 million, etc... There are so many variables when it comes to crime. Economics, drugs, organized crime, unemployment, stress, illegal immigration, etc... Some towns, like where I currently live, probably hasn't had a case of arson in decades. However, domestic violence can be quite high. Murders on the other hand are very low; as are personal crimes in public and home robberies. Drugs however can be high and thus other types of crimes such as robberies of businesses. In another town/city; it could be totally different with very little domestic violence, but a very high rate of murder.
There is no relativity to such statistics other than to see that particular town/city's upward or downward trend in crime.
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