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Philadelphia Daily News - October 16, 2010

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The North Philadelphia neighborhood bounded by Broad, Poplar, N.10th and Green streets has just been named the sixth-most-dangerous neighborhood in the country by AOL's personal finance website Wallet Pop. Richard Lancioni, chairman of Marketing at Temple's Fox School of Business, said that surveys like this can have a lasting negative effect: "It reduces the potential of the city to be a true destination city like New York or Boston, and reduces commerce in the city itself." Jerry Ratcliffe, chairman of the Criminal Justice Department at Temple, said "there is really nothing in this [survey] that anyone should take seriously." Ratcliffe noted that the survey named the same neighborhood "more walkable" than 99 percent of U.S. neighborhoods. "If they were really accurate, you wouldn't be walking. You'd be running really fast."