Is East New York Safer Than Brooklyn Heights?
The website DNAinfo released a crime and safety report that examines crime stats from the NYPD and the Census for 2010 and ranks the city’s neighborhoods in terms of overall safety. The Brooklyn rankings are shown above, and they’re a bit surprising: Bushwick and East New York are safer than the Heights, Boerum Hill and…
The website DNAinfo released a crime and safety report that examines crime stats from the NYPD and the Census for 2010 and ranks the city’s neighborhoods in terms of overall safety. The Brooklyn rankings are shown above, and they’re a bit surprising: Bushwick and East New York are safer than the Heights, Boerum Hill and Dumbo? (The formula used for the rankings: “divide the number of reported crimes in a neighborhood by the number of people living there, for a per capita crime rate.”) In the citywide rankings, meanwhile, Brownsville comes in near the bottom, but it’s still listed as safer than Midtown and the Village! Then again, all types of crime are weighed equally, so East New York—which had 33 murders last year to Brooklyn Heights’ three—is classified as safer than the Heights since it has a much larger population and had comparatively lower rates of other crimes, like property crime.
Crime and Safety Report [DNAinfo]
I think what’s happening here is they’re including white collar crime in the report — you know, like stealing houses from little old ladies through predatory lending. Very clever of them.
I love it!
I knew there was a way to make Brownstone Brooklyn look worse than Flint, Michigan. That is, if there still is a Flint, Michigan. Congrats to DNAinfo for generating some very misleading bad press about crime in NYC.
No this isnt what “happens with statistics” – its what happens when you dont know what the f you are doing with statistics.
The most dangerous neighborhood = midtown why? because there is a lot of petty crime and no one lives there.
This article is pure link bait – and Brownstoner you took it hook line and sinker.