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> perhaps one might rather refer to it as
> a 'target rich environment' when mentioning its repute,
> if only because the residents of the moment are unduly
> relegated to being fish in a barrel.
But that isn't the case, it isn't any more "target rich" than
anywhere else. This is how it works, There are very few
residents in a given area, lots of people travel into said
area every day to work, shop, eat drink etc. If there are
10,000 people living there and 300,000 people go there
every day then you statistically you will get an ammount
of crime in line with a population of 310,000. The problem
is, all the crime comitted against those 310,000 people is
actually shown as being comitted against only 10,000
because it is shown on a per 1000 people basis and the
1000 people in question are residents, they don't take
daily visitors into account.
Besides all this, I'm sure that at least 50% of the violent
crime happens because of all the pubs and clubs within a
very small area, places which are frequented mostly by
people who travel into the City to get pissed up and have
fights while they are there.
I would guarantee that if you controled for the fact that
there are very few people living there you would almost
certainly get a level of violent crime lower than the UK
average.
Jonathan Laws
Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org
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