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Baltimore Sun Murder Map

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  • 15-09-2008 1:08am
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    JPA
    Registered Users Posts: 13,759 ✭✭✭✭


    Sorry for the title but check out this page on the Baltimore sun website.

    http://essentials.baltimoresun.com/micro_sun/homicides/

    Play around with it a bit, change cause of death to shooting for example.

    Gives you an insight into the chaos of Baltimore's murder rate.
    Change to satellite view and zoom in and you could well be watching The Wire.


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    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,204 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    As I've said before I'm glad I dont live there!

    Some amount of murders there by shooting alone


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    dubmick
    Registered Users Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭dubmick


    four people strangled in the last six months, sound like Mafia hits. Also there is a suburb called Dundalk


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    godtabh
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    dubmick wrote: »

    Also there is a suburb called Dundalk

    Classy no matter where it is!


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    DeepBlue
    Registered Users Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭DeepBlue


    Number of black males shot to death over the last six months = approx 60.

    2mh8xt5.jpg

    Number of white males shot to death over the last six months = one.

    e0ic61.jpg

    Interesting.


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    godtabh
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    I wonder why the black males were shot? I would assume that a large percentage were drugs but could they all be drug related?

    I'd say the police over there have it tough


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    JPA
    Registered Users Posts: 13,759 ✭✭✭✭JPA


    kearnsr wrote: »
    I wonder why the black males were shot? I would assume that a large percentage were drugs but could they all be drug related?

    I'd say the police over there have it tough


    Drugs and gang related I would say. But why is Baltimore specifically so bad?


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    herbieflowers
    Registered Users Posts: 2,604 ✭✭✭herbieflowers


    Being a port, perhaps.


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    tvnutz
    Registered Users Posts: 4,787 ✭✭✭tvnutz


    Well when the population of Baltimore is 65% black,it is more likely there will be a higher amount of black people being the victims. Also if you look at the demographics you will find that black people are,overall,poorer than white people in the city.


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    Sherifu
    Registered Users Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    That's a lot of shootings :eek:


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    godtabh
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    I didnt realise that the population of Baltimore is less than Dublin. Can you imagine if there was that many shootings here?

    Thats what happens when you name a city after a place in Cork!


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    Robbo
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    dubmick wrote: »
    four people strangled in the last six months
    Any bite marks or red ribbons?


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    Jay Ru
    Registered Users Posts: 687 ✭✭✭Jay Ru


    kearnsr wrote: »
    I wonder why the black males were shot? I would assume that a large percentage were drugs but could they all be drug related?

    I'd say the police over there have it tough

    David Simon gives a good answer to this question in the bbc interview posted in this section


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