RogueInteger t1_iu4yzfa wrote on October 28, 2022 at 4:14 PM

Reply to comment by 50calPeephole in Police confiscate loaded gun from 7-year-old at Dorchester school by rabblebowser

Dorchester has roughly the same size population of Cambridge, and is as large as the next three neighborhoods of Boston combined.

The idea of broad brush strokes on such a large and diverse neighborhood is laughably out of touch.

50calPeephole t1_iu52auc wrote on October 28, 2022 at 4:36 PM

And yet just about every neighborhood reviewing system does it. Maybe the fantasy that Dorchester is a great place and not just an ok place is laughably out of touch.

The latest data indicates Dorchester's overall crime rate is 16.3 per 1k and its 2017 homicide rate was up and 12.8 per 100k.

RogueInteger t1_iu5bq49 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 5:38 PM

> And yet just about every neighborhood reviewing system does it.

Right, so the context is uneven because unlike things are being merged into like things. It's formulaically analyzing unlike places for comparison.

You can literally look at crime maps and discern this with little ambiguity. Same for murders.

You could draw a line down dot ave and have a vastly different result. The difference is that without understanding the size of the neighborhood, and the neighborhoods within it, the broad brush strokes aren't representative of the size and population of Dorchester nor does it represent each of the neighborhoods it's comprised of.

50calPeephole t1_iu5dgtj wrote on October 28, 2022 at 5:50 PM

I get what your saying, but for reporting dorchester is dorchester and the towns reputation is based on the reports generated within. This isn't a "It's that neighborhood's problem", the schools intermixed, the police and fireintermixed, quite simply, it's dorchester.

RogueInteger t1_iu5eg0o wrote on October 28, 2022 at 5:56 PM

There are problems unique to neighborhoods and streets within Dorchester. And to make geographically narrowly defined issues applicable to the broader space isn't sensible if you have any understanding of Dorchester at all.

You're bringing up weird data points that actually don't support your argument. Kids in Dorchester can register for schools in multiple neighborhoods outside of Dorchester, police precincts cover different areas of Dorchester (meaning you can't go into THE Dorchester PD HQ, you go into a precinct), and firestations are unique to even smaller precincts than the police. There's like 3 within a half mile of me.