Derry Township, Hotbed of Crime?
I just came across an article on PennLive that shocked me - if the reporting is accurate. Derry Township, that bastion on upper-middle class suburbia, has an astonishing crime rate. The article states:
"Derry Township has a population of 21,754. Of that number, 2,604 people were victims of crime in 2005, said Jennifer Storm, executive director of the Victim Witness Assistance Program."
Jennifer, say it ain't so. If my calculations are correct, Jennifer's figures mean 12 % of residents were crime victims in Derry Township. 12 people our of every 100 men, women and children? Or is this fuzzy math? If true, there ought to be a mass exodus for a safer place - like Harrisburg, where about 3,882 persons were crime victims. With a population of 48,659, that means the crime rate per 100 persons in Harrisburg is a mere 6%.
http://www.pennlive.com/newslogs/patriotnews/
http://www.cityrating.com/citycrime.asp?city=Harrisburg&state=PA
posted by Anniken Davenport, Esquire @ 7:54 AM
1 Comments:
I agree, Jim in principle. But Ms. Storm was making the pitch that her social services agency needed a satellite office to deal with crime and using those figures to justify it. If the crime rate (and I'm not convinced she has it right until I see hard statistics backing her up) is based on petty crimes, alcohol and drug busts at concerts, and the like, I don't think her agency will get much business from that.
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