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SYMPOSIUM EXAMINES AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY EMPLOYMENT AND BUSINESS GROWTH
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LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION BRIEFS CONGRESS ON NEW JUSTICE GAP IN AMERICA REPORT P2
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WEBSITE LET’S VISITORS RESEARCH
CRIME DATA NATIONWIDE By Christopher Shuttlesworth
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MARTIN LUTHER KING III HONORED WITH 2017 LIFETIME LEGACY AWARD
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eighborhoodScout Crime Analytics is a 15-year-old organization that uses crime data from 18,000 law agencies across the United States and algorithmically processes more than nine million reported crimes into nationally comparable crime data, according to neighborhoodscoutcrime.com. The company’s coverage includes data on crime risks scores for murders, robberies, thefts and rapes of every neighborhood and address in America. Paul Gallagher, who is NeighborhoodScout Head Marketing Director, said NeighborhoodScout has the highest resolution of crime data available in the industry and shows crime data all the way down to the neighborhood level. Gallagher explained that this level of data analysis helps people see the types of patterns that exist in their cities or states with regards to household data as it relates to a specific
neighborhood. Information is also classified by wealth and cultural data specific to a certain neighborhood. Besides those factors, the NeighborhoodScout analysis team uses a methodology for collecting data that takes into account every single factor when creating their crime data analysis, Gallagher said. “Sometimes people review our data and say ‘I live there and the crime rate seems really high to me,’” he said. “But what they might not be taking into account is that our scores are based on the population.” For example, if you look at the crime data in the South Loop of Chicago, you will see that during the day the population is a little higher than at night because of population surges during the daytime. “It may seem like a score is really high in a certain area,” Gallagher stated. “But if you look at the population for crime per thousand people in the population, then that is how you really determine
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