Comments on: Mapping Crime Victims

By: Clarice

Clarice — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:40:24 +0000

You have the sentence “Nobody is denying that being mugged or raped or murdered is fun for the person who was mugged or raped or robbed or murdered. ” I’m guessing you meant

“Nobody is denying that being mugged or raped or murdered is NOT fun for the person who was mugged or raped or robbed or murdered. “

By: flaneuse

flaneuse — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:38:43 +0000

Thanks for the comment – you are probably right that non-New Yorkers will need more than the outline of Manhattan to figure out where this is. Maybe a little thumbnail sized embedded site map with an outline of the state of New York would do the trick a la architectural master plans.

And you are also right that the concentration of prisoners’ home addresses is remarkable and shows up even better on some of the other maps in the report.

By: mike3550

mike3550 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:03:12 +0000

Great blog, I am really enjoying all of your posts!

I agree that these maps are helpful. Two things. First, I think that, even with Manhattan outlined, it might be difficult for a non-New Yorker to be oriented; possibly zooming out a little bit more or putting the city in a lighter gray than, say, New Jersey might help to orient observers.

But, intrigued by these maps, I clicked through the report that they are from. I think that it is instructive to compare these maps to those that of prison admissions by census tracts. These really highlight how concentrated, even within tracts, prison admissions are that would be glossed over by only using census definitions.