Interesting crime map for NYC

[Atypical Liberal]

http://projects.nytimes.com/crime/homicides/map

You can sort the map display by weapon used, age, gender, race, year, and more.

[slackmaster]

1. New York in general is a very safe city

As with most US cities, high crime rates are confined to a few dangerous areas.

[Hoyt]

2. Interesting. Manipulating map actually makes me feel safer -- and I felt very safe before.

[friendly_iconoclast]

3. How so? You obviously don't live in New York City.

This is like listening to a PETA member talking about eating meat- Every answer boils down to "Don't do it"...

[GreenStormCloud]

8. You would be safer in El Paso, TX. They had only three murders last year.

In El Paso they have more guns than people, but very few murders.

[ileus]

4. I always felt pretty safe in NY city, kinda stinks...

Not being armed but that's the way it goes I suppose. Cleveland...well that's another story.

[Glassunion]

5. It's amazing how many are related to drugs and gangs.

[iverglas]

7. Actually, I'm struck by how many are "dispute"

(including "domestic dispute"). I guess you didn't notice that.

Too bad the map can't be manipulated by prmary motive to see just what the breakdown is, because this is really very interesting information.

[iverglas]

6. so this is the "five boroughs", right?

Population 1 April 2010: 8,175,133

Let's say 8 million for 2009. Understatement, probably.

Homicides: 412

Rate: 5.15/100,000

Rate for the US nationally: 5.0/100,000

Given that I've understated the 2009 population of NYC ...

Scary place, NYC.

Just in response to some of the comments here.