Again, we're engineers. We're numerate. We're the type of people that have an innate sense when numbers just "sound wrong".
She's a lawyer-turned-judge. 100,000 might not sound all that alarming to her because it's a number both so large in a real sense and so small in relation to a 330M population nation that she simply cannot fathom what that number actually means.
Numbers are confusing and scary to most people.