Name: Forum participants question the reliability of online Beaver Island crime statistics, 2021
Start: 2021-11-23
End: 2021-11-25
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Dates: 2021-11-23 – 2021-11-25
Kind: Data quality discussion
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: public-safetydata-qualitycommunityrelocation
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

In November 2021, a prospective Beaver Island resident questioned online crime statistics that appeared to combine Beaver Island with other communities. Forum replies offered personal impressions and an ADT link but did not supply an official local dataset.

Evidence and limits

This record documents a data-quality concern, not Beaver Island’s crime rate or safety level. It is a useful warning that automated small-place statistics may misassign geography or produce unstable rates; official law-enforcement or court data would be required for a substantive conclusion.

Sources

Thomas and participants, “Beaver Island crime stats” / “Beaver Island crime statistics,” Beaver Island Forum, November 23–25, 2021, duplicate topics 16900–16904.
A prospective resident reported that online crime-statistics sites appeared to conflate Beaver Island with Harbor Springs or Charlevoix and asked for clear local data. Replies offered personal impressions of safety and one linked an ADT rating, but no official police, court, or incident dataset was supplied. The duplicate topics are treated as one discussion, not independent evidence.
forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 16 · t016900
Thomas and participants, “Beaver Island crime stats” / “Beaver Island crime statistics,” Beaver Island Forum, November 23–25, 2021, duplicate topics 16900–16904.
A prospective resident reported that online crime-statistics sites appeared to conflate Beaver Island with Harbor Springs or Charlevoix and asked for clear local data. Replies offered personal impressions of safety and one linked an ADT rating, but no official police, court, or incident dataset was supplied. The duplicate topics are treated as one discussion, not independent evidence.
forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 16 · t016901
Thomas and participants, “Beaver Island crime stats” / “Beaver Island crime statistics,” Beaver Island Forum, November 23–25, 2021, duplicate topics 16900–16904.
A prospective resident reported that online crime-statistics sites appeared to conflate Beaver Island with Harbor Springs or Charlevoix and asked for clear local data. Replies offered personal impressions of safety and one linked an ADT rating, but no official police, court, or incident dataset was supplied. The duplicate topics are treated as one discussion, not independent evidence.
forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 16 · t016902
Thomas and participants, “Beaver Island crime stats” / “Beaver Island crime statistics,” Beaver Island Forum, November 23–25, 2021, duplicate topics 16900–16904.
A prospective resident reported that online crime-statistics sites appeared to conflate Beaver Island with Harbor Springs or Charlevoix and asked for clear local data. Replies offered personal impressions of safety and one linked an ADT rating, but no official police, court, or incident dataset was supplied. The duplicate topics are treated as one discussion, not independent evidence.
forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 16 · t016903
Thomas and participants, “Beaver Island crime stats” / “Beaver Island crime statistics,” Beaver Island Forum, November 23–25, 2021, duplicate topics 16900–16904.
A prospective resident reported that online crime-statistics sites appeared to conflate Beaver Island with Harbor Springs or Charlevoix and asked for clear local data. Replies offered personal impressions of safety and one linked an ADT rating, but no official police, court, or incident dataset was supplied. The duplicate topics are treated as one discussion, not independent evidence.
forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 16 · t016904

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Beaver Island Archive, “Forum participants question the reliability of online Beaver Island crime statistics, 2021”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-online-crime-statistics-data-quality-discussion-2021/, accessed [date], citing Thomas and participants, “Beaver Island crime stats” / “Beaver Island crime statistics,” Beaver Island Forum, November 23–25, 2021, duplicate topics 16900–16904..

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