Closing Bell: Slope-Heights Online Mugging Map
Although the 77th Precinct maintains a map detailing the locations of recent crimes, no such visual rendering is available online. Some folks on Brooklynian’s Prospect Heights message board are trying to change that. They’ve set up a map that allows anyone to report muggings or other violent incidents in the neighborhood, and they’ve also added…
Although the 77th Precinct maintains a map detailing the locations of recent crimes, no such visual rendering is available online. Some folks on Brooklynian’s Prospect Heights message board are trying to change that. They’ve set up a map that allows anyone to report muggings or other violent incidents in the neighborhood, and they’ve also added data from published crime reports. Seems like a great community resource, though you have to wonder how many inaccurate or overblown reports are going to find their way into the mix. Nevertheless, neat stuff.
Mugging Map [Brooklynian]
Prospect/Crown Hts Mugging Map [GMAP]
“I think you are prime target in any neighborhood – Even the Upper West Side and the like, if you are walking around at 3 AM.”
Of course, there’s a CHANCE of getting mugged
anywhere at 3AM, even in Antarctica.
But, which is more LIKELY, STATISTICALLY?
Let’s put it this way – If you had to be on a 3AM flight to London, which airline do you think has the better safety record?:
1.) Air Zimbabwe
2.) British Airways
Cutesy cliches such as “I think you are prime target in any neighborhood” are nothing more than “diversity pom pom waving feel good slogans” which sound like something straight out of George Orwell’s 1984 novel.
To all you people from ohio and the rest of the midwest: you might be better off not listening to your fucking ipod when walking home at 3 a.m.
4:54
I’m talking Prospect Heights, where the density of muggings on this map are.
And yes, Park Slope has been gentrifying since the late 70s, still going strong…
The rock I live under? Park Slope.
Don’t think of them as “official” – it’s designed more like a wiki-map. Also, most incident pins link back to a news story or a first hand account of the incident in question on the brooklynian message board at http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=2
The map started with a focus on Prospect Heights (but has spread somewhat east and west). I’m not sure i’d put much weight in the relative “safe-haven” status of 4th avenue.
The point is to raise awareness of the crimes and (maybe) find some patterns that can be discussed with authorities/politicians at community board meetings, etc.
this map is idiotic.
Yeah because that McDonalds on 4th hasn’t been robbed about 10 times in the last year…..
4:51 – Park Slope is gentrifying? What rock have you been living under?
attention drunk yuppie assholes from Indiana or wherever the FUCK you came from.
3 am is a bad time to walk around in the neighborhood your’e gentrifying.
Just a lil advice.
Denton, we know where you live now. Be careful.