http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2005/15/c5091.html
"Study Points to New Options in Reducing Crime and Fear of Crime
People living in urban communities tend to have accurate perceptions of the type of crime occurring in their local neighborhood, but relatively inaccurate perceptions of the levels or amount of crime in those same neighborhoods. These conclusions were reached in a recent Converge Consulting Group Inc. study conducted for the City of Red Deer, Alberta -- part of a larger effort to develop a crime prevention and policing strategy for the municipality."
