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by mh- 687 days ago
I mean, I'd also be pretty interested in avoiding P(a crime occurs near you), especially as a tourist.
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> I'd also be pretty interested in avoiding P(a crime occurs near you), especially as a tourist

What counts as nearby also scales with density. Down the street is nearby in the suburbs. In New York the next avenue block may as well be another town.

Yeah there are only 24 hours in a day, so the right metric might be density of crimes in an area per hour. Even if I’m not the victim of a robbery, I don’t really want to be watching it from across the street.