Oakland homicides since 2007...Google mapped

[SAWYER]

I would like to see one of these for the whole U.S.

 

[CrackRabbit]

Welcome to Oakland, Bitch.

 

[habib89]

yeah, knowing oakland (and currently living in oakland)... that's about right...

 

[Shawn]

most of those deaths are by gunshot.

 

[CaffeineAndStuff]

Originally posted by: Slew Foot
Piedmont and Alameda seem safe, never mind that those are wealthy enclaves.

This is a map of murders in Oakland. Alameda and Piedmont are not Oakland hence any murders are not shown. Of course - there aren't many in Alameda and Piedmont but you can't draw that conclusion from the map.

Alameda had 2 murders in 2007 - 1 was a 15 yo girl killed on halloween by a bunch of Oakland youths in a park about 6 blocks from where I live, the other was a domestic.

 

[wetcat007]

Let's see Detroit....

 

[edro]

Whoa, those are cool!
I wish my city had one...

NYTimes did one for New York in 2005.

 

[Toasthead]

took a while to find a non gunshot one.

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: Toasthead
took a while to find a non gunshot one.

The first two I randomly clicked on were "run over by car" and "under investigation".

:shrug;

MotionMan

 

[Jack Ryan]

Originally posted by: Josh
i wonder what philly would look like.

http://inquirer.philly.com/graphics/homicide_map_2007/

 

[Miramonti]

With exception of the populated areas, it looks like a pretty safe city.

 

[shocksyde]

Originally posted by: jjsole
With exception of the populated areas, it looks like a pretty safe city.

So, if you live in a van down by the river, you're good to go!

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: shocksyde

Originally posted by: jjsole
With exception of the populated areas, it looks like a pretty safe city.

So, if you live in a van down by the river, you're good to go!

And there is some lovely artwork to admire in the swamp by the Bay, too.

MotionMan

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: shocksyde

Originally posted by: jjsole
With exception of the populated areas, it looks like a pretty safe city.

So, if you live in a van down by the river, you're good to go!

No, because you've then populated that area.

Here's a cool grass-roots site for those who aren't willing to totally give up on Oakland.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Dirigible
That map isn't complete. It doesn't show all the murders I commi...

... I mean, interesting map.

We can just check local animal control for all the dead kittens that turned up.

 

[Dirigible]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Dirigible
That map isn't complete. It doesn't show all the murders I commi...

... I mean, interesting map.

We can just check local animal control for all the dead kittens that turned up.

 

[aceO07]

It seems like the homicides are mostly close to the major roads.

 

[paulxcook]

Originally posted by: Jack Ryan

Originally posted by: Josh
i wonder what philly would look like.

http://inquirer.philly.com/graphics/homicide_map_2007/

This one was sad-

Ope Daodu
8/28/07
9pm
age: 3
race: black
sex: male
weapon: hands

It is also interesting to see how the age, sex, race, and weapon changes based on geographical location.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: CaffeineAndStuff

Originally posted by: Slew Foot
Piedmont and Alameda seem safe, never mind that those are wealthy enclaves.

This is a map of murders in Oakland. Alameda and Piedmont are not Oakland hence any murders are not shown.

Now why is the hell did it take TWO people asking the same stupid question and dozens of posts after that for SOMEONE to finally point this obvious fact out???

Hey, if you zoom way out you'll see that murders only happen in Oakland and not the rest of the country!!! :roll:

 

[ShotgunSteven]

No inverted pentagram pattern? FAIL!

 

[trmiv]

I used to work in Emeryville and got off at the MacArthur BART station every day. From the platform there you can see one of the bad areas on that map. No chance you'd ever catch me walking around there! The area around MacArthur bart isn't great either, but I was always there during the day when it was super busy. Sometimes you'd see some odd stuff riding the Emery-go-round though, like idiots doing sideshow crap like donuts in the middle of intersections.

Side note, Pixar is near there also.

 

[TwiceOver]

Cool.