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I rated Compton just in case...

• astrodust 13y ago
  A+++ would get mugged again?
• 9999 13y ago
  You mean you arbitrarily placed a dot in the middle of Compton without regard to what's actually there and whether or not it's actually a dangerous block. Even if you were to ignore the many problems with the very premise of this site (the racially and historically charged name first and foremost) the lack of granularity or verification in reporting would prevent any useful data from being gathered anyway. As other people have said, if you want to know if an area is high risk for crime, you have crime maps, if you want to know what the property values are, you have zillow, if you want to know what the median income of residents is, there's probably a map for that too.
  • superuser2 13y ago
    By the crime maps, the Magnificent Mile is the most dangerous area in Chicago. Crime maps are, for the most part, population density maps. See: http://xkcd.com/1138/ http://xkcd.com/1138/. You need to compare crime rates to the number of people in the area to get anything meaningful. By the crime maps, your probability of being robbed at Garfield-Red in the middle of the night is less than that of being struck by lightning in your lifetime. No Hyde Park resident will tell you it's a good or even reasonable idea to be anywhere near it at 11pm. When challenged on the data, they'll argue that few people are dumb enough to ride it at that hour, and that those who do get mugged are unlikely to bother with a police report for a crime which is seen as their own fault and unlikely to ever be solved (or even cared about) by CPD.