Map of Brooklyn Gang Turf Correlates With Map of Gun Violence
Despite pols and media blaming gun violence on terrorism, at least in New York gangs and not terrorists are responsible for the largest percentage of gun related fatalities. While recent media coverage of gang violence has ebbed compared to the proliferation of articles on mass shootings in recent weeks, gang-related crime has by no means gone away. The New York Daily…
Despite pols and media blaming gun violence on terrorism, at least in New York gangs and not terrorists are responsible for the largest percentage of gun related fatalities.
While recent media coverage of gang violence has ebbed compared to the proliferation of articles on mass shootings in recent weeks, gang-related crime has by no means gone away.
The New York Daily News has put together an extensive look at gang violence citywide, including a series of articles as well as an interactive map estimating gang turf citywide.
The map, perhaps unsurprisingly, correlated directly with Slate and The Trace’s map of this year’s gun violence in Brooklyn. It is based on data and maps from the Manhattan and Brooklyn district attorney offices.
The map of Brooklyn gangs shows a vast majority of groups are located in East and Central Brooklyn, with East Flatbush, Bed Stuy and Brownsville by far the most gang-saturated neighborhoods. Similarly, the map of gun violence showed the most fatalities occurring in Bed Stuy, Brownsville, and East New York.
Besides the large, apparently rectangular turf of a Latin Kings subset crew in Sunset Park and two gangs in Coney Island — the 20 Blocc Crips and the Gorilla Stone Bloods — nearly all of southern Brooklyn, from Red Hook down and around to Mill Basin, including everything in between, is nearly spotless of turf designations, according to the map and police data. On the map of gun violence, the same area was bereft of fatal and nonfatal incidents.
While the issue is relevant to the whole city, Brooklyn has it the worst, according to the New York Daily News. Of the city’s roughly 375 active gangs, 130 crews operate in Brooklyn, more than any other borough.
Of these 375 operating crews, some 38 percent are affiliated with the Bloods, 14 percent are related to the Crips, and 14 percent are allied with the Latin Kings. The majority of turf is in the vicinity of public housing developments.
In 2015, 130, or 40 percent, of citywide murders were committed by gang members. More of them were committed by smaller, younger crews than in years past.
The Daily News’ coverage included a feature on former convict and gang member Daron D-Maqq Goodman, who has started a neighborhood nonprofit working to rehabilitate gang members and those affected by the violence. Gangstas Making Astronomical Community Changes (GMACC)Â opened at its East Flatbush location in April, and though it is a small remedy for a big problem, Goodman feels he is having a large impact.
[Source: NYDNÂ and NYDN | Maps: NYDN]
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The “large, apparently rectangular turf” of Sunset Park does not in any way correlate with last week’s map of gun violence. Sunset Park had almost NO episodes of gun violence (just one episode, on 39th Street near 9th Ave). Today’s map includes Sunset Park as a purported gang location, and maybe that’s true, but still there was no gun violence there. Sunset Park had the same amount of gun violence as Bay Ridge and Park Slope: exactly one. In addition to no gun violence last year, Sunset Park also has zero public housing developments.
The “large, apparently rectangular turf” of Sunset Park does not in any way correlate with last week’s map of gun violence. Sunset Park had almost NO episodes of gun violence (just one episode, on 39th Street near 9th Ave). Today’s map includes Sunset Park as a purported gang location, and maybe that’s true, but still there was no gun violence there. Sunset Park had the same amount of gun violence as Bay Ridge and Park Slope: exactly one. In addition to no gun violence last year, Sunset Park also has zero public housing developments.
Groups of people with organized hierarchy’s, territories and ideologies that spend their time recruiting new members and enforcing their rule using fear, intimidation and murder. These are domestic terrorist organizations and should be treated as such.
Groups of people with organized hierarchy’s, territories and ideologies that spend their time recruiting new members and enforcing their rule using fear, intimidation and murder. These are domestic terrorist organizations and should be treated as such.
It also closely correlates with city housing. Why is nobody mentioning that?
It also closely correlates with city housing. Why is nobody mentioning that?