In response to adubious “ study”commissioned by a Craigslist contender that concluded the shady handjob and used laptop mecca is “ a sink of criminal offense , ” the San Francisco Chronicle ’s James Templeputs things in position :
Law enforcement linked 330 crimes , including twelve murders and 105 looting or assaults , to the pop San Francisco classify ads site last year , harmonize to an analysis based on medium coverage lay out for release this morning by the AIM Group .
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Let ’s take a moment to put these numbers in perspective .
Craigslist has nearly 53 million unequaled visitors per month , agree to comScore Inc. That means that 330 crimes give down to an effective pace of 0.000006 per visitor .
If Craigslist was a city , it ’d be 146 clock time larger than Oakland . Yet Oakland had 116 murders , 4,488 burglary and 4,129 felony assault in a late class , while Craigslist had 117 incidents across those three categories in 2010 .
For those crimes , on a per population base , Craigslist is about 11,000 prison term safer than Oakland .
So , next time you ’re meeting a random fashion plate on a dark street to pick up a ( probably slip ) DVD player , just call back — at least you ’re not in Oakland ! [ SF Gate ]
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