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I am not in the Triangle area currently. I have read a lot about how Cary has a very low crime rate. They don't seem to tell you what this actually means.
As an example consider cities A, B, and C, and consider only crimes involving automobiles.
In city A everybody locks up their car in some type of enclosed parking most of the time.
In cities B and C everybody leaves their car parked on the street.
In cities A and B there are hardly any thefts of automobiles, break-ins into automobiles, smashed car windows, etc
In city C there are a lot of these crimes.
Suppose law enforcement presence is the same in all three cities.
Cities A and B both seem safe, based on the crime statistics. City C seems unsafe, based on the crime statistics.
But the safety of city A might an illusion—perhaps it's safe only because the bad people are just given fewer opportunities to commit crimes.
The safety of city B is real. There are many opportunities to commit crimes, yet crimes don't occur.
Is Cary like city A, where the low crime rate merely reflects fewer opportunities to commit crimes?
Or is it more like city B, where there are just as many opportunities to commit crimes as other unsafe cities, but nicer people live in Cary who just don't commit as many crimes?
People still leave their cars out, but in general most have garages. Cary isn't really a city, it's just a large section of subdivisions, that's the primary reason that the typical physical crime doesn't occur.
Pretty much any town with Cary's demographics (income, education) would have low street-crime rates. Even neighborhoods of big cities with that kind of wealth are generally safe.
Believe me, having grown up there and then moved to Chicago's south side: it's not because Cary residents are particularly street-smart!
People still leave their cars out, but in general most have garages. Cary isn't really a city, it's just a large section of subdivisions, that's the primary reason that the typical physical crime doesn't occur.
I'm an intelligent, we'll educated woman, but I'm not sure I get your question. And aren't you the member who posted about looming for the statics on gender ratios and ethnicity in The Triangle?
I've moved twice, cross country, to cities I had never visited before. Once before the internet, when 'research materials' consisted of outdated census books at the library and current Yellow Pages that allowed me to count the number of Chinese restaurants. Now, with the internet, one can get a better idea, but it's never accurate until you get there.
Seriously - at some point statistics are just a way of avoiding taking action. If you WANT to move, get on with it. Make a visit and get a job first.
Thanks to all of you. Those were helpful answers. So it would seem that Cary really does have people that commit fewer crimes. It's not just an illusion.
Intelligent and educated persons should note that were it not for looking things up on the Internet, I would have never heard of Cary.
I came from a place where people left their cars and houses unlocked and there was never a need to worry about it. I'm not saying Cary is unsafe by any means, but that doesn't fly here. There are a surprising amount of people roaming around the streets at night looking for unlocked car an house doors. There are home invasions every once in a while.
To me I personally don't consider this low crime, but as with anything it's all a matter of what you're used to. Some people don't consider "crimes of opportunity" to be real crime, but I think that's silly.
There's nothing wrong with looking things up on the internet, but don't get too hung up on statistics. They're too easily manipulated and you end up missing the "bigger picture".
Thanks to all of you. Those were helpful answers. So it would seem that Cary really does have people that commit fewer crimes. It's not just an illusion.
Intelligent and educated persons should note that were it not for looking things up on the Internet, I would have never heard of Cary.
Degree from Google University?
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