This New York City Map Shows How Much More Dangerous Poor Neighborhoods Can Be

[FarCenter]

This striking map of New York City median income overlaid with shooting locations comes from Redditor im_an_actual_dog, and it appears to be legitimate.

Most shootings appear to occur in low-income neighborhoods such as Crown Heights, Harlem, and areas of the Bronx.

The map was based using Redditor ronanconway's shooting map that shows shootings for the first eight months of 2013. Blue markers indicate non-fatal shootings and black markers indicate fatal shootings. The income data comes from the 2010 Census.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-city-income-vs-shootings-map-2013-12

[Igel]

1. Not the only map that the pattern of shooting matches.

It's just the one that we like to look at. It suits our goals.

In fact, this isn't the best correlation. See that little pocket over to the East, firmly in Congressional District 6 (north of the red circle thing)? Not as low income as the area to the NW, but higher in violence.

Annoyingly, the high-crime areas are where a lot of stop-and-frisk searches and police in general are concentrated. Presumably we have to assume that if the police weren't there there'd be lower rates of violence. I heard that argument wrt Iraq--if we pulled out, the violence would stop. Eh. It suited the people making that argument to make it.

The upside--if we want to deign to call it that--is that violence is down from previous years. I find that scary.

[FarCenter]

3. Elmhurst and Flushing are more Asian and Latino than is Jamaica

[marmar]

4. The point being?

[FarCenter]

5. Being relatively impoverished may be less hurtful if you immigrate from a low GDP/capita country.

You may be advancing socioeconomically, compared with your situation in your home country.

[Raine1967]

6. Could you elaborate on this statement?

I'm not sure what point you are making.

[Eleanors38]

2. I saw a similar map of Baltimore: Low income, high violence.

[Vincardog]

7. When is the map overlay of FRAUD? White Collar Crime? Statistics don't lie …