According to the UCR, in 2014 there were 134,641 cases of violent crime in suburban cities across the US, while there were only 83,036 cases of violent crime in nonsuburban cities. In order to make sense of this, it would be natural to assume that violent crime requires personal interactions. In a suburban settings, people have many opportunities to interact with other people, thus giving them many opportunities to engage in violent criminal behaviors. On the other hand, nonsuburban city populations, might not have the opportunities required to commit violent crime. For example, they might have limited contact with other people and have a smaller circle of known folks. Furthermore, people from nonsuburban cities, might be more intimately familiar
