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<br />~ <br /> <br />COLORADO? <br /> <br />ELL <br /> <br />for intensified flre and police protection, sanitation, waste disposal, and other services. There <br />comes about a "diseconomies of scale" which requires an ever larger per capita tax expenditure. <br />Recent studies show that density increases those frictions that demand expensive social controls. <br />Dr. Kenneth Watt of the University of California at Davis, made a series of studies to <br />demorn;trate what the population increase of a city does to the number of crimes per 100,000 <br />citizens: <br /> <br /> ~1JMBE.R OF CRl\tES <br /> AVERAGE J'Iro'IDmER OF PER 100,000 PER YEAR <br />POPULA110N SIZE OF PEOPLE PER SQUARE <br />OnES IN 1960 MlLE MURDER RAPE ROBBERY ASSAULT <br />Over 250.000 7100 6.8 15.2 117,6 154.1 <br />100,000 to 250.000 4271 5.6 7,6 565 833 <br />50,000 to 100,000 3910 33 55 36.6 58,9 <br />25,000 to 50.000 2810 29 4.7 22,6 399 <br />10.000 to 25.000 2530 2,4 4,0 15.7 35.2 <br />Under 10,000 1700 2.7 33 12.8 28.9 <br /> <br />Thus, if an average American town grows from about 15,000 to over 250,000. it would <br />increase its assault rate 4.4 times robbery iJ.te 7.5 times, rape rate 3.8 times, murder rate <br />2.8 'times. <br />But that is not all Dr. Watt shows. The same citizen would be paying more per capita for <br />police protection, despite the fact he is more subject to becoming a victim of crime. His <br />California figures show: <br /> <br />THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MUNICIPAL TAX REVE.,,"UES <br />FOR CALIFORNIA CITIES <br />IN THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1967, ' <br />AND URBAN POPULATION SIZE <br /> <br /> TOTAL LOCAL TAX COST OF POLICE <br />AVERAGE CITY SIZE l\'UMBER OF CITIES REVENUES PER PROTECTION PER , <br />iN JUNE 30,1967 h"ll SIZE CLASS PERSON CAPITA <br />2,779:>00 I 512659 $22.39 <br />713,600 2 234.22 1993 <br />385.900 3 141.29 18.19 <br />179,831 4 102.&5 17.08 <br />131,340 5 10753 14.93 <br />96,929 10 83.92 13.87 <br /> <br />~~ <br />~ <br /> <br />New York City spends $39.83 per capita for police protection. The same reverse cost! <br />size ratio W:lS apparent in hospitalization - the first two categories spend 55 to S8 per person; <br />over 500,000 spend SI2.54, while New York spends S55.19. <br />