From: Andrew Diller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:33:29 -0500
Damaging to whom? In case that question isn't just rhetorical, Creating a sense that crime is worse than it really is hurts people who are selling houses (owners and real estate agents) and people who are re-financing houses. It also hurts people trying to attract other people to the neighborhood: trying to get a friend to visit, trying to get your fiance to move in with you (so you don't have to move), or trying to get people and businesses to move into the neighborhood to fill up vacant houses and provide convenient goods and services. Creating a sense that crime is better than it really is hurts people who are trying to reduce crime in the neighborhood. Police and government attention is often distributed according to perceived problems and number of complaints, not actual crime rates. If you are trying to get more police attention, I imagine that it would be helpful to have a newspaper article reporting a crime wave. --- Chip ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
