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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get that there is maybe more crime here than in richer parts of town, but I do not feel unsafe at the mall or the metro any more than anywhere else. I mean how many shootings is okay? None, of course, but that’s not the world we live in. My chances of being a victim of a violent crime here are extremely low. Certainly low enough for me to feel totally fine about going to Target. I think when people make these safety assessments it’s very, very easy for implicit racial biases to be involved because it’s kind of hard/impossible/crazy making to make a rational assessment. I think when I try to make a rational assessment, I think I’m just about as safe at this Target as any other, which is to say very safe but with a small risk. An uptick in crime that makes the small risk bigger, while it’s still staying very, very small, doesn’t meaningfully change anything. So when you’re saying you ban your kids from Target, I’m feeling like that’s not really rational. This is like thinking about mass shootings - I can’t base my decisions on that. I have to live my life. [/quote]

I'm genuinely curious if your premise is even true--that there's more crime "here" (UP?  PG Plaza?) than the richer parts of town.  Sure, there's probably more crime here than in Potomac or Great Falls, but those simply aren't comparable based on density.  Is there more crime here than around Tysons or Rockville Pike or Upper NW or any of the other somewhat dense, somewhat wealthy areas?  My sense is that all these areas have a baseline of crime--wasn't there a thread on here just a couple days ago about Tyson's?  I'm not sure I care quite enough to look up data and do the comparison myself, but I'd sure love to hear about it if anyone else has done that kind of comparison.  [/quote]

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