Hey, I can’t complain. My car got broken into a few years back (they took some valuables and made off with some empty luggage in the trunk). A guy got shot not that far away, too, a year after that. A single shot on a Sunday afternoon (a bit shocking, really), which was rumored to be part of a low-level drug-deal gone bad in a nearby neighborhood complex. All in all, a pretty safe neighborhood, especially since then.
Via David Thompson-Chicago Murder Stats in one place.
Where not to go in San Francisco?
Say what you will about racial history in the U.S, and all the thorny problems that come with it. Criminals, victims of crime, police officers and private citizens carry on.
Heather MacDonald: ‘The War On Cops’. C-Span interview with MacDonald on the book here. She also points out that Compstat isn’t really going anywhere: ‘Prosecution Gets Smart:
–Computational Criminology And Predictive Policing.
‘Computational criminology seeks to address criminological problems through the use of applied mathematics, computer science and criminology. Methods include algorithms, data mining, data structures and software development.’
Limited Resources + Potentially Imminent Risk/Harm + Repeat Offenders/Learned Skills + Violence + Lots Of Room For Error = Too Much Practical Upside To Not Adopt Additional Means Of Fighting Crime.
Via Marginal Revolution: ‘Neural Network Learns To Identify Criminals By Their Faces‘
Mildly To Marginally Related: American city-politics can be…pretty rough:
Why do people move to cities? Well, there are a lot of reasons.
Walter Russell Mead has a series built upon the argument that the ‘blue’ progressive social model (building the Great Society) is defunct because America will have to adjust to new economic and global realities. In the [then] current post, he focuse[d] on the part of the model that creates and directs government agencies to try and alleviate inner-city poverty and its problems.
Making normative the more anarchic, transgressive and illegal, as some radical activist thought becomes mainstream
Repost-Hipster Romanticism? From The Atlantic Photo: ‘Adventures Of A Serial Trespasser’A Little More On 5pointz, Activism, And The Meaning Being Sought By Some