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Another thing that the analysis doesn't take into account is the fact that a relatively small percentage of the people in Midtown at any given moment actually live there. The neighborhoods that get the worst scores by this formula are all heavily trafficked by tourists, and many of them have more office buildings than dwellings. Calculating the "per capita" crime rate for such areas based on the number of residents is very misleading.
When simple arithmetic doesn't cut it
DNAInfo made a set of interesting maps using crime data from New York. The analyst headlined the counter-intuitive insight that the richest neighborhoods in New York are the least safe. In particular, the analysis claimed that Midtown ranks 69 out of 69 neighborhoods while Greenwich Village/Meat...
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