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The city's nearly 9 percent across-the-board crime decrease touted by police -- including a 3 percent dip in violent crime -- doesn't tell the whole story about crime in Chicago neighborhoods, a Chicago Sun-Times analysis of district-by-district crime data shows paradoxically that the total decrease in crime, comes with an increase in crimes in several neighborhoods.
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Crime rate by police district:
http://media.suntimes.com/images/cds/pdf/highcrime080309.pdf
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I've never understood why everyone says Bucktown and Logan Square are so great. They regularly lead Chicago in crime in just about every roundup of stats that I've seen.
Everyblock ranks Logan Square the fifth crimiest neighborhood in Chicago. http://chicago.everyblock.com/crime/
Why does everyone say it's so great again?
In fairness though, EB ranks Lakeview as sixth 'crimiest' neighborhood, even though the ST article said it was one of the safest. Tough numbers to parse.
I think we've coined a great new word for the data-driven age.
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