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It's high crime because google sends tourists there...
If it sent them somewhere else, that would be the high crime area.
It's a high crime neighborhood because criminals live there. Or more precisely, because it's a poor, gang infested neighborhood.
What you've said makes no sense. There are high crime neighborhoods like this all over the country independently of what Google maps does. There are also neighborhoods full of tourists that aren't high crime areas.
Particular conditions, in this particular neighborhood, lead to these particular crimes occurring.
I wonder if we will hear the outcome of the lawsuit or if it will just get settled out of court.
On the one hand yes there are high crime areas and this is one.
On the other hand, it is possible that Google routed them stupidly.
On the other hand people shouldn't be traveling without learning a bit about the local threats and how to stay safe.
But crime is ultimately the responsibility of governments and they also have some responsibility to tourists.
Poor people rarely steal from their poor neighbors..
I've lived in lots of "bad neighborhoods" and never had my stuff messed with, I've lived in "good places" a few blocks away from the bad ones, and shit was always being stolen.
Its not complicated bud.
Except if you read this article it is clear that this is a high crime area where any tourists going thru it are targeted.
Yeeeeah, I know people who stayed in surrounding townships and often times they'd tell me they'd be scared to go home.
I have a friend who lives in Manenberg (also gang infested area in Cape Town), he's lived there all his life. Last year he had all his teeth broken by a gang.
I don't think you understand what dangerous is. You think you do, but you don't. These are places that ambulances, police and fire trucks don't dare go into for fear of having their vehicles set alight and being killed.
Life has no value in these places.
So, there were no crimes there before Google existed?