Today for giggles I googled “Stabbed in X” with X being a city where I would expect a lot of stabbings.
These are the results I got:
LA 22
London 98
This is interesting. Does this mean that LA is the least violent city? Seems unlikely. Why not google “Violence in X”, this gave a whole different set of results:
Wow, stay the fuck out of
Results for “Shot in X” (Note: a large chunk of the response for “Shot in
So there you have it:
So google, violence, numbers and massive scientific errors. Fun eh?
P.S. This could be given more of a scientific grounding by using Foxrock,
Just some fun with interesting numbers. I recommend you try it out with the city you live in! Does local violence go unreported? Do alarmist newspaper columnists predict chaos? Is somebody making a movie?