Do not trust the police. Ever. The police force has become something evil in its purpose...

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46. sure the data is there

if you want to believe hype from Alternet

Mcdowell county with a whole 22,000 people
and Tunica, Mississippi with 10,000 people

compared to Fairfax, where I guess the 1% lives - 1.1 million people (about 12% of the population of Virginia)

or Marin County with 252,000 people

The death rate is 8.39 per 1,000
giving you
185 deaths a year in McDowell county
84 deaths a year in Tunica county
92,290 deaths a year in Fairfax county
2,114 deaths a year in Marin county

Consider some other statistics. I have played 4,276 games of spider solitaire at the medium level and have lost 1,382 of them, giving me a win rate of 67%. My win rate is really 67.68%. Sometimes I consider, that even if I win 15 games in a row, my win rate will still only be 67%. 67.79% is still not 68%.

Suppose, however, I had only played 84 games and had won 56 of them. My win rate would be 66.67%. If I win 7 games in a row, my winning percentage shoots up to 69%.

My point is that a few car accidents, a few homicides, suicides a few untimely deaths at a young age by heart attack or stroke has a bigger impact on those small counties. Considering how mobile people are, I am not sure how you do life expectancy for a county anyway. McDowell County had 100,000 people in the 1950s and now about 70,000 of them have moved away.