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posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 04:50pm on 26/10/2007
Compare, if you will...

College Station crime stats

Greenville crime stats

Although the CS rape stats are not encouraging ¬_¬ ECU has a better panic button system on Campus, whereas here we have school spirit and a naive belief that the kids in the Corp are all trustworthy honourable young gentlemen :p
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posted by [identity profile] forthright.livejournal.com at 04:57pm on 26/10/2007
The rape stats may actually be a good sign for CS; because such a large population of the city is made up of A&M students, it may reflect a high reporting rate due to good rape education. Greenville may have a lower rate, similarly, because its population is poorer and less well-educated, and thus reports are not made (e.g. due to distrust of police).

The murder rate is, on the other hand, generally quite accurate, because few murders go completely unreported. And there, CS has Greenville beat by a considerable margin.
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posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 05:04pm on 26/10/2007
yeah...

The rape stats get even scarier when you include Bryan, which you really have to, they are separate in the same way that Kitchener and Waterloo are separate. Bryan is 3.29 times the national average. Education will account for some of that, sure, but that is still quite high!
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posted by [identity profile] rumor-esq.livejournal.com at 05:13pm on 26/10/2007
A population made up almost completely of twenty-something college students is going to have a high rape rate AND a high reportage rate. It stands to reason.
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posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 05:15pm on 26/10/2007
Except in Greenville :V
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posted by [identity profile] rumor-esq.livejournal.com at 06:15pm on 26/10/2007
Oddly enough, the other two categories of violent crime are way above average in Greenville.
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posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 07:35pm on 26/10/2007
That was exactly my point :V
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posted by [identity profile] rumor-esq.livejournal.com at 06:16pm on 26/10/2007
...And way below average in CS.
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posted by [identity profile] rumor-esq.livejournal.com at 06:18pm on 26/10/2007
Really, Greenville seems worse all around except for the quite low forcible rape rate. That's hard to explain. Maybe it really is a reporting problem in Greenville.
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posted by [identity profile] forthright.livejournal.com at 05:14pm on 26/10/2007
Yikes. Intuitively that does seem too high to be just an artifact of reporting rates. But you live in College Station itself, right?

So is the equation Waterloo:College Station :: Kitchener:Bryan? Because, you know, Kitchener can be kind of a hole.

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posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 05:19pm on 26/10/2007
As soon as I posted it, i was regretting the comparison.

Kitchener has more of its own industry than Bryan, which is mostly a satellite community supported by the university.

CS doesn't really have it's own town center, though - the closest we come is Northgate, which is really more the restaurant/bar district pretty much right outside of campus where the residences are, hmmm... The real 'downtown' area is in Bryan (I think - I've been there all of twice :p). Bryan is a bit more ghetto (cheaper housing attracting more students, older neighborhoods, etc) in some ways, maybe, but not as bad as Kitchener!
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posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 05:20pm on 26/10/2007
And yes, I do live in CS proper ;)
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