Need some help, to find a paper this was in the American Rifleman, a long time ago.

[Bake]

The report compares violent crime in Vancouver, B.C. Canada to Vancouver, Washington, USA. Using per capita and demographics.

 

[Gary L. Griffiths]

Bake, I think the paper you're referring to compared Vancouver BC to Seattle, WA rather than Vancouver, WA (which is MUCH smaller than the Canadian city). IIRC, the gist of the study was that gun violence was much higher in the US than a similarly sized and located Canadian city.

Then someone tore down the demographics, and demonstrated that if the murder rates of the two cities were compared by race, the rate among Orientals was roughly the same, while the rate for Whites was actually lower in the US than in Canada. What skewed the study was that the rates for Blacks and Hispanics were MUCH higher, and there were orders of magnitude more of them in Seattle than in Vancouver, BC.

That may not be what you're referring to, but it was another flawed study published many years ago.

 

[Bake]

Are you sure, it was Seattle, not Vancouver (both had about the same population)? You maybe right, its been along time. Do you remember what the flaws were, other than not being PC, and being in a NRA magazine?

 

[kilimanjaro]

Another flaw, the study is now overtaken by events, as they say. The demographic of Vancouver has changed a great deal since then. So much so, it's called 'Hongcouver'.

The cities are now very similar in crime patterns. Drugs and gangs did it.