Coincidentally, that 25 most dangerous neighbourhods thing seems to suffer from some methodological flaws. It looks like they've just taken the number of crimes and divided it by the number of residents, ignoring what the area actually is. The west side Chicago neighbourhood (number one) is where the United Center is, the Navy Yard in DC is the new Nationals' stadium and, if I recall correctly, on of the Atlanta neighbourhoods is a sparsely populated part of downtown. It sort of stands to reason that places with fewer residents but a lot of foot traffic would have higher crime rates than a comparable neighbourhood without a stadium, say. This was posted on Metafilter and someone managed to work out that their calculations may be out as well, as they were assigning crimes for a larger area to a neighbourhood. (One of the neighbourhoods spans two police precincts, I think, and seemingly got assigned all the crimes.)
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Date: 2010-10-20 07:09 pm (UTC)