Crime Conspiracy

This just in: almost all crimes in Boston are committed in Roxbury.

Or at least that's what the Boston Crime Google mash-up indicates. My neighbor Bob sent me these maps tonight. Click on the maps to enlarge them. Roxbury is a big, but it ain't that big. The crime markers, however, tell a different story. Together, these maps have thrown in incidents from North Dorchester, the Fenway, the South End and even Downtown into "Roxbury." Bob equates this set up to the way realtors are slowly changing Lower Roxbury into the South End, except in reverse. Unlike the gentrifying effect South End creep evokes, pinning crimes from half the city under Roxbury's name just reinforces the usual negative (and sometimes erroneous) stereotypes.

Good looking out for the neighborhood, Bob. Who do we have to talk to about getting that fixed? 

Comments

[adamg]

That would be me!

I'll take a look; yeah, there's something screwed up there.

[adamg]

OK, I took off the spectacularly stupid one (the downtown one; in which I goofed and simply picked the wrong neighborhood from the dropdown menu I use to help build those maps), now to look at the others.

If I've gotten others wrong, the problem isn't real-estate brokers so much as the police reports - the police report crimes by police districts, which don't always coincide with neighborhood boundaries (for example, a lot of what they report as "Roxbury" sure looks like Dorchester to me (and Google Maps).

[3D]

Thanks for the clarification, Adam.