Chicago Gang Territory vs 2011 Chicago Homicides
Posted Dec 21, 2011 at 10:27 AM
As part of David Bernstein and Noah Isackson's excellent piece on politicians and gangs in Chicago, we included a map of Chicago gang territory based on CPD information. Out of curiosity, I plotted 2011's homicides (through 12/11) and overlaid them on the gang-territory map. It's approximate, but it's a useful rough sketch of the overlap.
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Update: @SethLavin makes the point that the above map correlates with CPS probation schools. It's true:
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Reader Comments:
great stuff, whet - now we just need the schools map to be done as an overlay so that people can see which schools are in which gang territory -- you'd be surprised but such a thing has never been done before.
I'm going to hazard a guess that another layer of average income or real estate value would be interesting.