The Math That Predicts a City's Crime Rate Before It Happens #Shorts

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Double a city's size, crime more than doubles.

[00:00:03]This isn't a guess.

[00:00:05]It's a mathematical law.

[00:00:07]Physicist Geoffrey West proved it.

[00:00:10]He plotted 360 American cities.

[00:00:14]Crime scales at exactly 1.16.

[00:00:17]Every 100% population increase, crime rises 116% always.

[00:00:25]New York, Houston, Phoenix, identical curve.

[00:00:30]Policy doesn't move the number.

[00:00:33]Growth itself is the crime multiplier.

[00:00:36]Drop your answer below. Does your city's crime rate match what the scaling law predicts?