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Trulia lists crime statistics for most addresses.
Just punch in the address in your search engine and click on Trulia. On bottom left are crime statistics. Not every police department releases all crime statistics. Most do.
Murder is the worst judge of crime. Murder is almost always committed by someone who knows you. A particularly high murder rate is likely to indicate a gang area - which unless you do something to get on the gang's radar, you're still not likely to be a victim, though rogue bullets from a drive by are problematic. Otherwise, I wouldn't even take it into consideration. Look at burglaries, thefts, and I'll glance at assaults and rapes as well. Those last two are often someone who knows you as well, so unless the numbers are particularly high from the norm, I don't worry about it.
Though to be perfectly honest, I don't worry about crime much at all. I stay out of gangland areas, don't take unnecessary risks, keep my wits about me while walking alone, and the rest is up to fate. I lived in St. Louis for 20 years (city proper for 12) and was never a victim of a violent crime. If you pay attention to the media, you'd think I was in constant danger living in a war zone, but the media likes to induce fear.
No, the issue isn't me being personally murdered. Although I may have worded the question to sound like that.
The issue is crime in general and using the murder rate as a way of judging how dangerous a neighborhood is. Redondo Beach, CA has had 3 murders so far in 2015. Compton, CA has had 16 murders so far in 2015.
I don't know anyone in Compton, but wouldn't a neighborhood with more murders have a higher rate of other crime? More assaults? More burglaries?
No, the issue isn't me being personally murdered. Although I may have worded the question to sound like that.
The issue is crime in general and using the murder rate as a way of judging how dangerous a neighborhood is. Redondo Beach, CA has had 3 murders so far in 2015. Compton, CA has had 16 murders so far in 2015.
I don't know anyone in Compton, but wouldn't a neighborhood with more murders have a higher rate of other crime? More assaults? More burglaries?
That is the assumption law enforcement makes so I would agree with that. Murder rates are much more likely to be accurate compared to things like vandalism and rape which go unreported more often than murders.
I thought that he was worried about renting an apartment where somebody had been murdered, previously.
Me too. I was trying to decide how long ago the murder would have had to of been in order for me to rent. Last tenant murdered? Nope, not renting. But if the murder was 10 or so years ago? Maybe, as long as it wasn't too torturous. And as long as it wasn't a high profile murder where I would have tour buses driving by.
No, the issue isn't me being personally murdered. Although I may have worded the question to sound like that.
The issue is crime in general and using the murder rate as a way of judging how dangerous a neighborhood is. Redondo Beach, CA has had 3 murders so far in 2015. Compton, CA has had 16 murders so far in 2015.
I don't know anyone in Compton, but wouldn't a neighborhood with more murders have a higher rate of other crime? More assaults? More burglaries?
And no, as I previously mentioned, murder doesn't correlate to other crime. Murder is personal. Robberies and burglaries are an entirely different class of crime.
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