Baltimore murder maps

[TVC15]

All white people murdered in Baltimore last year:

http://essentials.baltimoresun.com/micro_sun/homicides/?range=2007&district=all&zipcode=all&age=all&gender=all&race=white&cause=all&article=all&show_results=Show+Results

All BLACK people murdered in Baltimore last year:

http://essentials.baltimoresun.com/micro_sun/homicides/?range=2007&district=all&zipcode=all&age=all&gender=all&race=black&cause=all&article=all&show_results=Show+Results

And there are approximately 5 non-white, non-black murders a year there.

[CurseoftheGods]

Holy shit at those black murders.

That's horrible.

[Phoenix Dark]

I went to Baltimore once to visit a cousin. I'm not going again. I lived in Detroit for many years so it's not like I had never heard gun shots before, but I didn't even want to go outside for fear of strays

[AdmiralViscen]

Maybe we should just ban guns among blacks

[TVC15]

One of my friends made the app.  He said he was going crazy testing it, because while he knew there'd be a disparity, he didn't know it would be that big.  In the end, he says he went through all the records by hand to verify the data, and it is correct.

[demi]

rofl

[CajoleJuice]

All in the game, yo, all in the game.

[Eric P]

but it does drive down the price of housing which allows a GREAT artistic community to thrive there

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

If John Waters were black, he never would have lived to become mediocre.

[Eric P]

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part of baltimore's thriving art community mentioned above

[Madrun Badrun]

If this was a google map feature I'd be F5ing all day long.

[CajoleJuice]

[youtube=425,350]t8q9m2z3e4g[/youtube]

part of baltimore's thriving art community mentioned above

"I hope you catch AIDS in your mouth"

[TVC15]

If this was a google map feature I'd be F5ing all day long.

I asked him about that, and he said he needs the cooperation of local police to really do this effectively (in order to get the precise addresses), and also access to a local newspaper's archives/file structure (he works for the paper in question in Baltimore).  He's been getting lots of emails from people asking to do it to their cities.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

white people:
black people:

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

did you ever notice that white people die like this  and black people die like this ?

[Madrun Badrun]

did you ever notice that white people die like this  and black people die like this ?

 

[Eric P]

baltimore isn't that bad if you're not stupid

[AdmiralViscen]

baltimore isn't that bad if you're not stupid

Racist.

[Phoenix Dark]

baltimore isn't that bad if you're not stupid

That's true in many dangerous cities. If I'm on the eastside of Detroit or Compton I know not to wear red

[Eric P]

baltimore isn't that bad if you're not stupid

Racist.

i have several black friends

for instance, my doorman.

[TVC15]

baltimore isn't that bad if you're not stupid

That's true in many dangerous cities. If I'm on the eastside of Detroit or Compton I know not to wear red

Foo, I have seen Snoop Dogg's BONES.  Believe me, you got bigger things to worry about aside from how dumb your ass is.

[Madrun Badrun]

Spencer do you live in Baltimore?  Will a new tick be added?  I'm F5ing already!

[Joe Molotov]

baltimore isn't that bad if you're not stupid

Or white. You just gotta watch out for the occasional knifing or baseball bat to the head.

[CurseoftheGods]

baltimore isn't that bad if you're not stupid

Sucks for PR  :'(

[Eric P]

Edit: Let it be known that I was the first and last white person allowed in Oxon Hill to say the N word openly around black people. I just never did it out of respect to Dr. King and Jam Master J.

this is unironically the funniest thing i think i've read all day and i can't explain why

[Eric P]

wait you live in oxon hill and you're scared of baltimore?

[Eric P]

yeah, you live 10 miles from me

[Eric P]

i'm about half a mile from landmark

and no.  you're to young for me.

[TVC15]

i'm about half a mile from landmark

and no.  you're to young for me.

I'm from Arlington, though I only lived there until I was like 4 and I don't remember living there.  I also lived there from like 2001-2003. 

[Eric P]

you're not missing much

more people so more traffic

[TVC15]

In the early 2000s (which I also coincidentally do not remember) I was working and living in Georgetown, and during that period, it was getting all torn up and constructiony with the sort of projects that take far too long to complete.  I really liked pre-torn-up Georgetown a lot, and if circumstances were a little different, I might have ended up staying in the area.

[CurseoftheGods]

baltimore isn't that bad if you're not stupid

Sucks for PR  :'(

Eat a fat one. I lack in areas but I have amazing street knowledge and cred.


Edit: Let it be known that I was the first and last white person allowed in Oxon Hill to say the N word openly around black people. I just never did it out of respect to Dr. King and Jam Master J.

omg

Blow Me.

no homo

It wasn't funny the first time you said it, dude.

[Eric P]

well georgetown now is nice again

there's a lot of construction in the area between dupont and GT but it's actually progressing but M st has managed to become absolutely horrible in regards to the chain storification of that area.  we now haunt places like U St, Capital Heights and the like for our interesting stores.

[TVC15]

well georgetown now is nice again

there's a lot of construction in the area between dupont and GT but it's actually progressing but M st has managed to become absolutely horrible in regards to the chain storification of that area.  we now haunt places like U St, Capital Heights and the like for our interesting stores.

One of the effects of the construction (and of course there were other causes) is that all the cool independent stores in Georgetown were closing up by the time I left.  The construction killed sales, and it was like, mostly chains left.  I'd imagine that chains have completely taken over the empty slots from the quirky and independent stores.  It felt like it was losing a lot of its character when I was leaving.