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Re:How prostitution and alcohol make Uber better by 5teev on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @05:17PM (#2993576)
Reported crimes probably correlate more strongly to police presence, so the root question may be, Are police officers more heavily patrolling areas where people also need rides, and how do they know?
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Re:How prostitution and alcohol make Uber better by danielparks on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @07:33PM (#2994090)
That's exactly what I was thinking about. Here in San Francisco, the police were recently cracking down in North Beach (mostly around the strip clubs on Broadway). It seemed to be a pretty clear causal relationship in that case — more people meant more police meant more tickets and arrests.

The plural of anecdote is data, right?

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