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Keith makes a good point...statistics from a website don't tend to tell the whole picture. A crappy neighborhood may have fewer calls than one expects, simply because the people living there are used to a certain level of criminal activity and accept it as a part of life. A nice quiet neighborhood may have a lot of "nuisance" type calls, simply because they have a very low tolerance for anything out of the ordinary. Let a black man even think about walking down the street in my one nice neighborhood, and I've got six prowler calls holding. Meanwhile I've got houses being shot up in the hood and nobody bothers to call. We find out two weeks later when the retaliation hit actually pings somebody and they say, "oh yeah, a couple of weeks ago..." It's best to check personally with an officer who works the area.
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