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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gonzaga High School is a few blocks away and the new buildings for NPR and Walmart are nearby. Lots and lots of change going on. [b]Honestly, I think you have just as much of a chance, if not more, of experiencing crime outside of the Target or Columbia Heights Metro.[/b]  I think they made a good choice given the limited amount of real estate made available by the city.  Sure, I'd love to be in a less congested area with lots of green space, but we all know that the city isn't offering up those kinds of properties.  [/quote]

I agree with you that MV had few options and their choice isn't a bad one. Plus, Truxton/NoMa are changing for the better.

[b]However your statement in bold is completely false, if you are talking about serious crime. [/b]There was a fatal drive-by shooting in Co Heights a few year's back (2010?) and it made the FRONT PAGE of the Post because it was considered so shocking that such a crime could still occur in CoHi. Whereas drive-bys still happen on a monthly basis in Truxton, and it never makes the news unless a dozen people get shot (as happened a year or so ago). Give me a break.

[u][b]If you are talking about petty crime, purse snatching, yes, this is more likely in absolute numbers in CoHi, because CoHi is the most densely populated neighborhood in the city and has the most foot traffic. But it is much safer on a per capita basis than Truxton.[/b][/u] [/quote]

I wish people would look at data before they started throwing around what they perceive to be the truth.  Check out http://crimemap.dc.gov/.  If you use MV's current location and look for annual stats for violent crime w/i 1500 feet, you'll see that in 2013, there were [b]137[/b] incidents of violent crime.  If you do the same analysis for MV's future home (30 P St NW), you'll see [b]47[/b] incidents of violent crime.  Nearly 3x as many in the area around its current location.[/quote]

PP here, I just noticed that the system defaulted to only 1000 feet when I did the second query.  The number should be [b]92[/b] in 2013 for violent crime within 1500 feet of 30 P NW.  Higher, to be sure, and I apologize for the error.  But still significantly lower than the current location.[/quote]

I respect your willingness to do research here, but I think you missed the bold underlined part of what I wrote above. CoHi is a lot more densely populated and you have to take that into account. People make the same mistake trying to argue that Trinidad is less dangerous than CoHi, again using the crime map absolute numbers. Take a look at it on a per capita basis.

Plus, even if we use absolute numbers, do the crime map exercise again using homicides and you will see zero at the old MV location, since they started the data in 2011, versus 8 in the new location, over the same time period.

Note that in the crime map, purse snatching and phone snatching is considered violent crime (as it should be). It is categorized as "robbery, no gun". But it's a lot different when a gun is involved, and even worse when a gun is fired, and that happens a lot more often in Truxton and Trinidad than it does in Co Hi even on an absolute basis, not to mention per capita basis.

In conclusion: absolute numbers of non-gun violent crime is higher in CoHi but both absolute and per capita prevalence of gun crime and homicide are higher in Truxton (and Trinidad, and Park View, and, and...).

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If you are that concerned about crime DO NOT APPLY.

Even if you apply, your chances of getting in are very low so don't worry about how much you hate the new location.

Ye gads!!!
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