re: Huntsville ----- thoughts on the city and surrounding area

i just scanned, briefly, at chattanoogas crime stats. chattanooga is basically higher, percentage wise. but they have about 20k less residents. heres what i'm getting at. are the high percentages skewed due to population. the less population, the higher the percentage, even tho the actual numbers are fairly low. they base it on per 100k in the population. so 22 murders per 100k in a 197k total population shows way higher than 50 per 100k in a 1 million total population. right?

i'm no mathematician, at all and ive never played one on tv. but hey, someone can correct me and let me know how bad wrong i am.