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Oh, sure. All those people who slept with their 15-year-old girlfriend the week after they turned 16, but before she did; just as they had been doing for months before that. Unclean! Unclean! Off to Coventry!
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A 5 miles radius would be about 78.5 square miles. That's over 3 times as large as all of Manhattan (22 square miles).
If they wanted to interview every sex offender in Manhattan, I'm thinking they'd need to interview a lot more than 161.
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Having looked up by address on the Virginia sex offender site, it looks like there are roughly ~150 sex offenders living or working within a five mile radius of my house (there could be some double-counting there). And I live in a suburban area in Fairfax County, VA, where the median property price is ~$460K and the average household income is $105K.
Like Xavier points out, a 5 mile radius is a lot of ground and a lot of people in an urban or suburban area. There are some 33,000 people in my zip code, and that doesn't include all of the five mile radius.
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quote:Originally posted by Xavier: A 5 miles radius would be about 78.5 square miles. That's over 3 times as large as all of Manhattan (22 square miles).
quote:Originally posted by Xavier: A 5 miles radius would be about 78.5 square miles. That's over 3 times as large as all of Manhattan (22 square miles).
If they wanted to interview every sex offender in Manhattan, I'm thinking they'd need to interview a lot more than 161.
Now wait a minute. Yes, 78.5 square miles is a pretty large area, but comparing it to Manhattan is misleading because Manhattan has a hugely larger population. Population density within a given area is going to have a huge impact on whether a given number of anythings is going to sound high or low.
161 registered sex offenders within 5 miles of Manhattan is nearly negligible.
161 registered sex offenders within 5 miles of Orange Park, FL is slightly more worrisome.
161 registered sex offenders within 5 miles of my house would be downright scary, since I estimate that there are fewer than 5000 people total in that area.
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The thing is, Orange Park is just on the outskirts of Jacksonville, FL (pop approx: 820,000). So, it's not exactly out in the boondocks.
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Well, Manhattan's also not the sort of suburban place where you think it might be okay to let your child play outside alone.
That, and Manhattan has 10 times the number of people that are in Orange Park's entire 600 sq. mile county.
I was about to say that people expect Manhattanites to be freaks, but I guess I lived in Northern Florida for long enough to know that's not exclusive to New York City.
As if there weren't already a bevy of reasons to move out of North Florida, now they've gone and told them exactly how many sex offenders are roaming around.
I'd just as soon do some research and find someplace a little safer. There has to be somewhere. I wish I could believe that they're all just 16 year old boys who got turned in by the girls' angry fathers, but I've seen way too much Dateline to go back.
[edit: and looking at a map of Orange Park, a lot of the area of the 5-mile-radius circle is underwater, and between 15 and 25 miles from downtown Jacksonville]
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It is on the outskirts of Jacksonville, but it's just on the other side of the 295 loop, and right at the foot of major highway bridge.
Just guessing, but I can't assume it's the best area in the world.
Edit: Though, from the wikipedia article, it seems like any old suburb. If nothing else, there's a pretty high population density in the area(about 2300/sq mi), so 161 spread out over a 5 mi radius isn't as many per capita (about 1 in 1000+) as it would be in a more rural area.
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