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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People get mugged in "nice" areas like the Hill because criminals know that people there have cash/iphones/etc in their pockets.  I live in a truly terrible neighborhood, and NO ONE gets mugged.  Shot, yes, but not mugged.  [/quote]

Weel then, THAT makes me want to move there. [/quote]

But the shootings aren't random.  People are shooting people they know. In 10 years in my neighborhood, I've never known any law abiding citizen to be a victim of crime.  That's why people can feel safe in a 'bad' neighborhood.  That being said - obviously if I had the $$ to move somewhere else, I would. I don't have any other options at the moment.  But the crime isn't affecting us directly, thank god.  [/quote]Yes, the crime situation is a lot more complicated than people realize. I tutor a kid who lives in a public housing project on Alabama Avenue.  [b]When I check the weekly crime report in the WaPo's Local Living section, I check to see what crime is happening in her neighborhood as well as mine. [i]Never[/i] read about robberies on her section of Alabama. It's safer for me to drop her off at her house after tutoring than it is for me to go out to dinner in Adams Morgan.[/b][/quote]

Do you have one iota of streetsmarts?

People who live on Alabama Avenue are NOT going to call the cops (their enemy) for robberies and such. They are used to this as part of daily life. But people in Georgetown would. This is why on a given day crime can seem worse in a "good" neighborhood. It has nothing to do with actual crime, it's about whether the population there will report it.[/quote]Oh FFS, of course, I've taken that into consideration. But the fact is that you would be one more person deciding you know the level of crime in a neighborhood based on how scary the residents look. Certainly I've assumed that some people don't report crime in some neighborhoods (which is why I'm still careful in the kid's neighborhood) but neither you nor I know *how* often that happens. I start out looking at the actual crime statistics for a neighborhood which is something very few people on this thread are actually doing. [/quote]

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