One of my friends from work, who lives near the 'hood apartment, asekd me today if she lived in the ghetto. She felt she lived about 5 blocks away from the edge of the ghetto, an approximation with which I concur, but it made me think and somehow I was able to quantify whether or not she lives in the hood. Granted, I had to paraphrase Jeff Foxworthy (which scares me just a little), but here's what I came up with:
If your street (and neighboring streets) appear on the Daily Activity Log of the Police at least 5 times or more per week, you live in the ghetto.
So to make sure this was an appropriate assessment, I went through the blotter for the last few days and, sure enough, there is at least one listing per day of my former street. And I thought 5 was a high number.
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