crime… and punishment?

Jan 8, 2013

I was looking at properties on trulia.com — just simply surfing. My virtual shopping took me from Florida to Arizona and back to the Ville. That’s where I found something I thought was interesting. Interesting enough to grab a screenshot even. And here it is:

what the heck?

I understand statistics can be altered to pretty much be whatever you want them to be, but holy cow! Is the Ville a hot bed of criminal activity when compared to other Indiana communities? I “get it” that the graph for violent crime is based on ‘less than one percent’ incremental changes — but property crime isn’t. It appears that crimes against property in Jackson County, Indiana is double the norm for all other Indiana communities. Can that be?