The Los Angeles Times online edition (LATimes.com) has launched a new feature called the The Homicide Map. The map is a mashup of Google Maps and The Homicide Report - an online blog-style effort by Times reporter Jill Leovy to chronicle every homicide in Los Angeles County in 2007 (As of July 30, The Times has counted 496 homicides in L.A. County). The Homicide Map helps users explore the data at a broad level while the Report itself is more focussed on individual homicides.The Homicide Map features:
- Filter by victim's race, gender, cause of death, and other parameters
- Find homicides near an address and/or ZIP code
- View photos of victims and link to Leovy's reports
- RSS feeds or Google Earth viewing
Related: Los Angeles Google Maps Mashups
[Thanks for the tip Frederic and Eric!]
1 comment:
the german magazine der spiegel.de picked up on this one yesterday!
i was amazed that they actually cared...
the only thing the have to nag is that people living in the high risk areas can't hide anymore... but for people in LA those neighborhoods have no secret "status" anyway....
for someone like me that has been in LA for exteneded periods of time it's so sad to see that the majority of victims are still teens and twens... and a lot of stray bullets kill in LA... what a tragedy.. and the saddest thing is that in LA nobody really cares... if you talk to people about it you get a very indifferent answer... normally you hear something like: in our neighborhood it's safe...
what became of those programs where adults sponsor a child??? most of those troubled teens come out of messed up families.. and it's not just the lower class families that are messed up in LA... it's pretty wide spread...
i think p. hilton is a good example of parenting gone wrong, or l. lilo, etc. etc .etc.
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