Fun With SFPD Crime Maps
With all the talk around here lately about crime, we thought we'd pay a visit to the neatest online tool we've seen for amateur criminlogists: SFPDs Crime Maps!
The picture to the right is from one of SFist's favorite intersections; each icon shows the location of a reported crime in the past three months within 500 feet of Haight and Webster. The neatest part about the site is the ability to drill down and see what actually happened. We generated a report for the intersection above that revealed a total of 58 incidents, most of which were for drug dealing and theft.
After the jump - more maps, and a reader challenge!
Think that's bad? The Haight has nothing on the Tenderloin.
This map to the right comes from Jones and Ellis, and shows a whopping 295 crimes including 163 drug offenses, and only one vehicle theft. Only one car reported stolen here in three months? We're finding that one hard to believe, but there you go. The other stat that stuck to us was the number of "battery of a police officer" infractions - you generally have to be pretty far gone to hit a cop.
Last one above is from Fillmore and Chestnut. The Marina has has been hit by a wave of robberies lately, and this snapshot shows 22 incidents, but only two reported strong-arm robberies. We think that low number is because the others are hidden behind the assaults and grand larcenies, but we're not entirely sure.
We explored the site for about an hour, and have yet to come up with a more active intersection, crimewise, than Jones and Ellis. What about it, SFisters? Is that the roughest intersection in the City? Let us know! The rules are the same as above - within 500 feet, and the past three months.