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Digging into the Data: What City Reporting Reveals About Crime
Statistics Show Overall Decrease in Incidents Within City Photo illustration by Richard Friend One morning in May 2023, Naomi Beech (whose name has been changed to protect her privacy) walked out of her Historic District home in the City of Laurel planning to commute to work just as she had done every other weekday. Instead, she opened the driver’s side door of her Kia Seoul and was greeted with a vandalized interior and destroyed steering column. Neighborhood Ring camera foo

Hannah Hoffman
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