A recent article has once again brought up the question, have we gone from the city of homes; to the city of homicides? i guess the answer would depend on who you ask, and where in the city they live. This conclusion came as a result of data gathered by AreaVibes who argue that based on the population size and the crime levels this determination is indeed accurate - area officials beg to differ.
Some say the large majority of murders, shootings, etc. is restricted to the criminal elements and not a fair representation of city residents on a whole - generally the city is safer than a lot of other places, and the idea that Washington and other big cities pale in comparison is ludacris.
We have decided to conduct our own unofficial poll to gauge the accuracy of the sentiments echoed - please feel free to participate. "One of the worst crime cities," we say NO to this conclusion ... but we could be biased, we live here.
My Marketing Research class did an extensive survey of the residents' perception of crime about 10 years ago.
ReplyDeleteThe results were interesting. Most residents felt that crime was prevalent, but not worse than other area cities (Holyoke, Worcester, etc) and larger cities (Boston, NY, Washington DC, etc.).
We were supposed to post the unofficial results of our poll but in light of the recent passing of Mandela - we held back. In any event we found while many residents acknowledge issue with crime the fail to see how springfield is considered one of the worst.
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