Baltimore homicides in 2007

Posted on July 20, 2007 by Melissa Worden

The Baltimore Sun put this map together as a part of their Confronting Crime series.

What an effective way to illustrate this series. You can search their interactive database of homicides so far this year, and click on a point to see who was killed where.

They say a picture is worth 1,000 words: Try a search for all blacks in all of 2007, then compare that map to all whites in all of 2007.

Holy crap.

Credits: Data compiled by Sun reporter Gus Sentementes using information from the City of Baltimore. Baltimoresun.com designer Stephen Mekosh produced the Google Map mashup.

UPDATE: I made a typo in the headline that was completely unintentional. It’s now fixed.

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2 Responses to “Baltimore homicides in 2007”

Emeline on July 22nd, 2007 3:15 am

Dear Readers,

Although the idea to create this kind of map is absolutely astonishing and almost terrifying, I have to admit that it can at least be useful to know where to move in - and in which district!

Best regards,
Emeline
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