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June 18, 2009
NYTimes article on NYC murders
I found this article rather interesting (although not surprising)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/nyregion/19murder.html?_r=1&hp
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There's also this cool graph....
http://projects.nytimes.com/crime/homicides/map
Posted by: 11217 at June 18, 2009 5:26 PM
That's it! I'm selling my house and moving to Central Park.
Posted by: denton at June 18, 2009 6:08 PM
Freaky.
Posted by: mopar at June 19, 2009 12:08 AM
I liked it too and was encouraged about the stats in my 'hood. I guess we have a noise problem, not a crime problem :)
Posted by: Brooklyn11218 at June 19, 2009 6:02 AM
No news here. This is common sense.
Posted by: modsquad at June 19, 2009 6:38 AM
This happens every year. The overall statistics show a drop in crime. Move along people. Nothing new here.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at June 19, 2009 8:22 AM
There's totally something to see there. It's a really interesting article to those who find criminology and police procedural interesting (like me). I don't think the article was intended to be alarmist about crime at all.
Posted by: traditionalmod at June 19, 2009 9:27 AM
Spike Lee's 1999 film: Summer of Sam, addressed this very statistic.
Posted by: parkslopemom at June 19, 2009 9:36 AM
I actually thought the interactive map was interesting
I typed in 11215 and only 3 murders happened in the past 6 years -all around the park. However, all 3 murders seemed to buck the trend as either the murder happened at 8am on a weekday morning or was a woman murdered by someone unknown
Posted by: gemini10 at June 19, 2009 10:47 AM
If you look at Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn only, for three years back, you see all the murders cluster around Bed Stuy and Ocean Hill (with a little bit in Crown Heights). That is, um, striking.
When you click on the dots, most of them say a young black man killed another young black man over drugs.
Posted by: mopar at June 20, 2009 11:34 AM
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