[104665] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hauling gear around a NANOG meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chip Marshall)
Thu May 22 17:15:39 2008
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 17:15:36 -0400
From: Chip Marshall <cmarshall@dyndns.com>
To: Rod Beck <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com>
In-Reply-To: <71CB284A12EDA54880FF588A8BAC0BE221FEB9@ernie.HiberniaAtlantic.local>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: cmarshall@dyndns.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
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On May 22, 2008, Rod Beck sent me the following:
> I hate to break the news to the New York bashers, but New York is one
> of the safest American cities. This is not a controversial statement.
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> New York has a lower incidence of crime than Miami, Detroit, Seattle,
> Los Vegas, Houston, Atlanta, DC, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia.
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> http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/chapter09_files/sheet002.htm
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> I refuse to go to NANOG events in Florida - now there is a dangerous
> place as well as a foreign country ...
Interesting data, but potentially skewed due to population differences.
New York City's metropolitan area population is 18,818,536, whereas
Miami is only 5,919,036.
Miami: 7116.2 per 100,000 =3D 0.071162 crimes per person
0.071162 * 5919036 =3D 421,210.44 crimes
NYC: 2771.0 per 100,000 =3D 0.02771 crimes per person
0.02771 * 18818536 =3D 521,461.63 crimes
So it's not really that there is less crime, there's just less chance of
a particular person being the perpetrator or victim.
Also, my population numbers are based on 2006 data provided by
Wikipedia, and therefore are not to be trusted.
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Chip Marshall
System Administrator
Dynamic Network Services, Inc.
http://www.dyndns.com/
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