Flawed Map Says L.A.’s Crime Highest Next to Police HQ

CNET briefly describes how a poorly chosen default behavior has led to an online crime map of Los Angeles (on a site designed at a cost of 2,000) that shows that “a location just a block from the department’s new headquarters is the most crime-ridden place in the city.” I wonder how often this sort of error would completely skew things like real-estate maps that attempt to show whether houses in a certain neighborhood are worth more than those in the one next door.

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