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Crimes by location
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Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Chicago, Illinois
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This post will be kind of a spin off of my previous thread on real estate, but it's a little more general. I was hoping to be able to go online and see which areas around the condos I'm looking at have what kinds of crimes, how frequently, when was the last crime, etc. There is a pretty neat website at www.chicagocrime.org which essentially does what I want, but only for chicago and not the suburbs. I think a website that did this for the entire U.S. would be very helpful, but as far as I can tell, it does not exist.
So barring that (and it gives me an excellent idea for a small web company... but I digress), I'd like to be able to look up all the crimes in a city over the past x amount of time - I'd be willing to sort through the information in what ever form it is given. I seem to be having trouble finding such a source. Is that type of information easily accessible? I haven't been able to find it so far (at least not online). I'm specifically looking for information in Des Plaines, Illinois. I'm not looking for stats - I want the types of crimes, where they happened, and on what date.
Any thoughts?
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Easiest thing is collect stats on crimes by states (or by cities) and by types and also dates into one Excel table and you've done. Then you can analyze it, creates hypotheses, check the regression analysis with various variables (eg income per capita, population density, ethnic background). Based on these conclusions, given that your analysis is valid, you can forecast crimes in a particular place and perhaps even dates. This will not mean that you can foresee them actually, but it will give you good picture of what on average could be expected from a particular location. Was my advice helpful?
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Join Date: Dec 2000
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Uhhh... yeah, that would kind of work. I'd rather work with the real data instead of extrapolated data, but thanks anyway.
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Extrapolated data based on real data and trends..if you build your time series correctly, have large number of observations, your hypothesis is valid, tests show that that the relation is OK..then unless someone has better values, your analysis should be fine. There should be indices of quality of living by cities and states as well.. they should incorporate criminal environment too.. Do your research around, you should probably find some earlier attempts. look at regional development stats/reports, urban development and so on
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