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Re:Can a new mayor fix San Francisco’s housing and homelessn... by aaronbwebber on Thursday May 31, 2018 @05:12PM (#17200326)
> with increased density comes increased crime, stressed parking, and other problems.

Increased density does not increase crime. There's no evidence for this. There are very dense places with low crime and very low density place with lots of crime.

"stressed parking" is probably true, but part of the point of increased density is that you have less need for a car.

"other problems" is dog whistle.

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Re:Can a new mayor fix San Francisco’s housing and homelessn... by hcknwscommenter on Thursday May 31, 2018 @05:52PM (#17200635)
>Increased density does not increase crime. There's no evidence for this.

I think I agree with you, but you are over simplifying the issue. Increased density does not increase crime per capita. It does increase crime per other measures of crime intensity (crime per square ft?). https://nycdatascience.com/blog/student-works/pressure-cooke...

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Re:Can a new mayor fix San Francisco’s housing and homelessn... by vorpalhex on Friday June 01, 2018 @09:45AM (#17205217)
Accusing me of dog whistling seems to be an extremely bad faith interpretation of anything I said. There is absolutely a well supported, highly researched and discussed relationship between density and increased crime rates and that you simply dismissed my point reeks of preconceived notions that you aren't attempting to actually grapple with.

http://theipti.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/covariance.pdf

http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/13030.html (non-primary)

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