Other neighborhoods have relatively few people in them during the day. This makes it difficult to compare areas just on the number of crimes. No one can predict solely on the basis of past data exactly where crime will occur in the future. Not all crime is reported to the police as much as 50 percent of some types of crime may go unreported. Historically, some groups of people have been more likely to report crime to the police than other groups.
People are often most afraid of crimes committed by strangers.
However, many crimes are committed by friends, acquaintances, and family members. Both stranger and non-stranger crimes are included in most of the data we provide to you. Occasionally, programming or human errors cause crimes to be placed at the wrong location on maps. Most importantly, many things that may make you feel unsafe don't get included in crime statistics. Everyone is different.