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Re:Show HN: Play with an interactive heatmap of SF crime (an... by rogers12 on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @12:42PM (#41183054)
Does it really? Some classes of crime have been narrowed down to the same 50 individuals. You can't model car break-ins as everybody in the area rolling the dice on getting a taste for breaking glass and grabbing things.
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Re:Show HN: Play with an interactive heatmap of SF crime (an... by chowchowchow on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @04:16PM (#41184962)
it scales with a factor of less than 1.0 but yes it scales. For instance the number of thieves could be given by the ratio .001 * population.
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Re:Show HN: Play with an interactive heatmap of SF crime (an... by nox101 on Thursday August 08, 2024 @03:56AM (#41189136)
yes, And this is why it's so frustrating the police don't just setup a few honeypots and catch those 50 people. Sooooooo many citizens would be helped, neighborhoods too, ...
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