West Cary Shooting

[m378]

Originally Posted by JONOV

I bet if you put pins in a map you'd find it skews heavily towards the far southeast (the Buck Jones-Tryon-Jones Franklin area) that buts up to a so-so part of Raleigh and the Northwest where it buts up to Durham. That's just a guess though.



Your missing my point (I think) to some extent. Take Cary. It's 60 square miles and 177K people. The towns you point out are much smaller. One could take entire subdivisions of Cary to compare more accurately. Or lump 5 towns in Mass.

Also, I don't know why you don't consider Brookline an appropriate comparison given its size and proximity to Boston proper.

I understand your point, but my point is if you took any of the towns I listed, and included 3 or 4 surrounding towns to get to a similar population, you'd still find the average crime rates per capita better in MA. I mentioned Woburn because it borders Winchester, the same goes for Medford, it has a similar crime rate as Cary. So even if you take the "worst" and "least desirable" surrounding towns, they have similar crime rates as Cary.

If you take Winchester, it's bordering towns and their associated crime indexes according to neighborhood scout are:

Medford 55
Stoneham 69
Woburn 54
Lexington 89
Arlington 89

Average (with Winchester at 83): 73

Cary Crime Index: 57

That's a pretty significant difference. Granted some of these towns have been gentrified to death over the years (Medford and Arlington especially), so maybe the Triangle is just behind on the gentrification front which may very well be the case.

I didn't consider Brookline because I was using 128 belt suburbs because I felt they were the fairest comparison to Cary. Brookline butts right up to urban Boston, which would be more similar to ITB in the Triangle, in my opinion.

[ITB_OG]

Originally Posted by m378

I didn't consider Brookline because I was using 128 belt suburbs because I felt they were the fairest comparison to Cary. Brookline butts right up to urban Boston, which would be more similar to ITB in the Triangle, in my opinion.

I don't think Brookline is comparable to ITB since that's the core of Raleigh (unless you just mean specific parts of ITB), but I don't think Brookline is comparable to Cary either fwiw. It's more like a Boston neighborhood to me than a suburb pe se.

[poppydog]

Less crime in MA and MA also has stricter gun laws. Not hard to draw a correlation.

Decent article on it in Reader's Digest of all places https://www.rd.com/article/gun-violence-statistics/

If you're a data nerd you might enjoy wading through this: https://towardsdatascience.com/what-...s-da01d9fb7413

[m378]

Anyone seen any updates on this?