[cwkimbro]

I have done a decent amount of social science research using statistical analysis and I can say with a rather good degree of confidence we should ignore what that study says.

There is a statistical anomaly to their study design that is very bad for Atlanta and really good for places like New York City.

There is a negative bias with any area that is frequented by a high amount of people, but is sparsely populated. All of these neighborhoods have something big in it like the GWCC that draws in tens of thousands and sometimes hundreds of thousands of people at one time, but yet the only housing in the neighborhood is single family housing and there are some empty lots.

This happens because they are taking the number of crimes in an area and dividing it by the population that lives there. This would be better to do for the Atlanta region as a whole, but not for small neighborhoods.

Realistically, there is a moderate amount of crime at the GWCC, because there are tons of people, but relatively few people live just west of there (high number of crimes...low amount of population)