Tuesday, January 15, 2008

OPD Crimewatch Maps up again


No idea why they were down for so long. One of our friends wrote to the local city councilmember to complain and voila, as of today they are back up! I encountered an error of some kind--and was able to see cumulative crime stats for Oakland city proper from September 07 to present. Couldn't really see any patterns except that there is a lot of prostitution in poor areas of West and East Oakland. (Like the Iron Triangle of Richmond.)

However, not to knock only poor areas--richer areas feature prostitution too, just in brothels--which is perhaps why they are left alone. (Organized vs disorganized crime. We only hate on disorganized crime, here.)

The "accidental" map:

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