<story><title>How We Found New Patterns in LA’s Homeless Arrest Data</title><url>https://source.opennews.org/articles/how-we-found-new-patterns-la-homeless-arrest/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>robotkdick</author><text>A link in the OPs article that supposedly supports the conclusions derived from the data says:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;...from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. Homeless population in the city of LA is up 48% just since 2013. The reporters data shows a 31% increase in the amount of arrests of homeless people. So, per-capita arrests have gone down. That&amp;#x27;s basic statistics.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That would indicate that the headline of the article supported by the data...&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Huge increase in arrests of homeless in L.A. — but mostly for minor offenses&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;..is misleading.&lt;p&gt;I lived in Santa Monica during the same time period. The homeless population has skyrocketed along with homeless crime. We moved further south because of the problem. The LA Times is a joke.&lt;p&gt;The LAPD are not the best police department in the country, but I do believe they&amp;#x27;re doing their best with a complex problem the rest of our society has chosen to ignore since the 1980s.&lt;p&gt;The homeless problem is not due to the police, but they are the ones we unfairly expect to deal with it.</text></comment>
<story><title>How We Found New Patterns in LA’s Homeless Arrest Data</title><url>https://source.opennews.org/articles/how-we-found-new-patterns-la-homeless-arrest/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>&amp;quot;An XLSX file is just a zip of xml files&amp;quot; is definitely a useful tidbit I will keep in my toolbox. I have clients at my day-job who send us Excel files all the time, even after explicitly cautioning them that the software only works with CSV.</text></comment>