Pseudo Sol

Introduction The data I'm going to present in this post  In this post, I'm going to show quite a bit of data.  (1). Comparing violent crime at the neighborhood level in several Canadian cities (for example: how does the worst neighborhood in Calgary compare to the worst neighborhood in Saskatoon?)  (2). Comparing violent crime at the area / small city sized level in several Canadian cities (for example: how does the North End, Winnipeg compare to Thompson, Manitoba?)  (3). Comparing violent crime at the neighborhood level in Canadians cities and American cities (for example: how does the worst neighborhood in Buffalo compare to the worse neighborhood in Saskatoon?)  (4). Comparing the central business districts / downtowns in each of the Canadian and American cities I have data for (for example: how does the downtown in Edmonton compare to the downtown in Minneapolis?)  (5). City-wide crime rates juxtaposed with their downtown violence score and their most ...

Do city-wide crime rates really indicate anything important or useful to us? When people look at crime rates, they’re typically looking to find out how dangerous or violent an area is. Crime rates are mostly widely presented as nation-wide crime rates or city-wide crime rates. Cities are large areas and anyone who has lived in a city knows that crime and danger are not evenly spaced out in that city. There’s always a “bad part of town” and a “good part of town”. We all understand then that city-wide crime rates do not tell us how violent or dangerous the entire city is. So, what do city-wide crime rates actually tell us? Do they correlate with how dangerous the most dangerous neighborhoods in a city are? Do they correlate with how dangerous the downtown area is? Do they correlate with something else? Do they correlate with nothing? That is what I’m trying to find out today. As someone who’s looked at crime rates in neighborhoods a lot throughout the last decade of my life ( dunno, it’s...