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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone really should sit down and do a crime stat comparison between Roland Park and Cleveland Park and Chestnut Hill and Brookline and Hancock Park.

I've spent enough time on internet forums to know that when it comes to crime stats and people start posting about anecdotal experience or instincts, it distorts the reality on the ground. Crime happens everywhere. All affluent areas suffer from petty theft and even periodic muggings. And the periodic murder, tragically, even if it is more of a once a generation thing. The truth is that at the end of the day, genuinely well-off people would not be paying high prices to live in a crime-ridden ghetto. Roland Park residents aren't going to be paying high prices and high taxes just to suffer from crime all the time.

If someone is genuinely concerned about crime in Roland Park, probably the best thing is to read the archives of the neighborhood's civil league meetings and see what's being reported and discussed. Like most educated, affluent neighborhoods, Roland Park residents are very proactive. [/quote]

I know for a fact that not all crimes discussed at Roland Park civic meetings make it onto the materials placed on the web site.  There seems to be a vested interest on some of these crimes not
 being reported -- in one case, there were several burglaries on one street (all at night, with the families home).  The following spring, four houses on that street were put up for sale.  I have never seen this particular series of burglaries reported, but we were househunting at the time, and heard about from a friend who did attend a civic meeting.[/quote]

You are insufferable.  I love Roland Park.  I live in DC.  You must also believe that DC is crime ridden as well.[/quot

Nope, lived in D.C. with no issues.  Are you not aware of the difference in crime rates between D.C. and Baltimore?

But I actually live in Baltimore and you don't.[/quote]'

I'm actually from Baltimore.  I practiced big law in Baltimore.  We decided to settle in DC b/c the job market is better here.  Would move back in a heartbeat.[/quote]

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