Neighborhood Crime Data Doesn’t Belong on Real Estate Sites(redfin.com)
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Neighborhood Crime Data Doesn’t Belong on Real Estate Sites
https://www.redfin.com/news/neighborhood-crime-data-doesnt-belong-on-real-estate-sites/
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Do local public school ratings belong on real estate sites?
They don't want to exacerbate racial disparities, which is noble. They could have used that as their sole justification, but for some reason they also try to say that the crime datasets are inaccurate. Their reasoning for this is surprisingly weak. Regarding the National Crime Victimization Survey: "And there are troubling signs of this [racial bias]: in the 2019 survey, people reporting crimes were more likely to describe their offender as young, male, and Black than would be expected given the representation of those groups in the population."
I'll take the male/female angle because that's less loaded than the racial angle.
Men commit more crimes than women. They just do. That's reality, not a sign of gender bias in the reporting.
Men commit more crimes than women. They just do. That's reality, not a sign of gender bias in the reporting.
One of the ways European and Asian men are racist is by refusing to commit more crime.
Men probably commit more violent crimes but I dont think that the numbers are too far off when counting all crime
doesn't matter what redfin does, zillow ate their lunch a long time ago.
I think there's a possible range of motivations for Redfin's choice, and I don't know which ones contributed to this decision by their management & marketing teams — but OTOH I don't really care. Avoiding allegations of contributing to structural racism or bias is simply not my problem. Risk management is.
If I'm getting ready to buy property and have significantly narrowed down my choices, I'll move from publicly-available free reports to the paid output of commercial risk assessment firms like CAP Index [0] (which are excellent and accurate in my experience). To do otherwise seems like folly, but of course everyone is free to make their own decision.
[0] https://capindex.com/