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Flawed Map Says L.A.'s Crime Highest Next to Police HQ

Posted by timothy on from the statistics-are-coming-from-inside-the-station dept.

CNET briefly describes how a poorly chosen default behavior has led to an online crime map of Los Angeles (on a site designed at a cost of $362,000) that shows that "a location just a block from the department's new headquarters is the most crime-ridden place in the city." I wonder how often this sort of error would completely skew things like real-estate maps that attempt to show whether houses in a certain neighborhood are worth more than those in the one next door.

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  1. sensible by aneamic · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It makes a lot of sense to locate your police headquarters in high crime areas. The close proximity will lower response times, and the constant traffic of police through the area will discourage crimes of opportunity.