Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Yea I agree but its a homicide thread, the numbers aren't meaningless like some of you try to make it out to be. If so no point in having this thread. But I agree the hood is the hood.
Nahh.. I didn't say it's meaningless but some people (not you) put too much meaning to it. Like on youtube for example, there's people that think because city A has 1/3rd the rate then it's like some wonderland. Albiet those are mainly trolls with no lives, but still just sounds dumb in the grand scope of reality.
Like for example if LA has 1/5th the murder rate of Baltimore does that mean just go stomping around the hoods? That's what some of those trolls are getting at.
Can you post the link to the website that broke down gun violence down by census tract?
I like to know how San Bernardino, CA fit in there since that's like our own California version of midwest/rust-belt rundown ghetto or like a Baltimore on the westcoast.
Can you post the link to the website that broke down gun violence down by census tract?
Website is now defunct. I posted it in the 2021 Homicide thread. It broke it down by census track, zip code or a set number of blocks. I remember Philadelphia's highest were higher than Baltimore's however, Baltimore had less tracts with 0 homicides than Philadelphia.
Not surprised that most mass killings in very rural areas are drug related. The fact that a teen mother, and her infant child is among the victims really surprised me. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/16/us/go...ead/index.html
This also...as locals you kind of know where the "problem areas" are - sometimes it can be a cluster of apartments - and most of the time even if you live there you won't get kill (or even get robbed...).
Agree on the "block to block"/"street to street" thing also - DC Anacostia/EOTR is a good example - locals know that there are certain blocks you don't go into, certain lines that are long drawn between rival gangs, then there are enclaves (i.e. Hillcrest) where the community leaders probably live in.
Of course, then there's Baltimore...where homicide is definitely spread out, but chances of you getting murdered in the middle of Federal Hill or Roland Park is still low, and homicide rate in the part of NE Baltimore (which is definitely more "mix bag" then the outright rundown area in near East/near West Baltimore) is definitely nowhere as bad and at times, can be clustered around certain strip malls (where, well, certain business gets done) or a few blocks.
block by block def applies to DC, even WOTR. Much of NE and NW have bad streets/blocks even if in general WOTR is much safer than EOTR.
And Baltimore one up DC and is at 11 as of this morning.
People just can't stop killing each other, sigh...
Technically 9.
2 were shot last year but died in the hospital last week.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Boredatwork
