Word: crime
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like many crowded cities, Cambridge-which has one of the highest population densities in the country-can experience large fluctuations in year-to-year crime statistics without it being part of a trend, said criminologists consulted...
This year, crime rates in packed neighborhoods like Mid-Cambridge and North Cambridge had high rates of residential burglaries...
...report also cites a crime prevention tenet-that regions of the city with smaller numbers of "at-risk" residents like college students and teenagers usually experience fewer crimes...
...report did not see any significantcorrelation in crime rates among areas with highnumbers of divorced and single-parent families...
Pasquarello said the crime statistics did notrepresent a trend. But he said that the highernumbers for certain types of crime were cause forconcern...