{"id":6154,"date":"2013-09-10T07:49:11","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T11:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=6154"},"modified":"2013-09-10T14:37:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T18:37:28","slug":"a-few-savannah-crime-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2013\/09\/10\/a-few-savannah-crime-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"A few Savannah crime maps (updated with no maps)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Medium Rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8584504377\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>For the reasons I generated these maps, please read my City Talk column today: <a href=\"http:\/\/savannahnow.com\/exchange\/2013-09-09\/dawers-savannah-arena-debate-sparks-misplaced-crim-concerns\" target=\"_blank\">Arena debate sparks misplaced crime concerns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I generated maps looking at crime reports over the past year using the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raidsonline.com\" target=\"_blank\">Raids Online<\/a>. The site is linked from the Savannah metro police website.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: One email correspondent pointed out that I probably need express permission to publish the maps I created, so I&#8217;ll get in touch with the company that runs the site. <\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, you can generate your own maps. It&#8217;s easy and sort of fun.<\/p>\n<p>Do the following:<\/p>\n<p>1) Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raidsonline.com\" target=\"_blank\">RAIDS Online<\/a> and search for the city (Savannah) you want to look at. <\/p>\n<p>2) From the drop down menus on the left, choose the dates you wish to look at.<\/p>\n<p>3) Then use the drop down for &#8220;Event&#8221; &#8212; this will let you select or deselect individual crimes.<\/p>\n<p>4) Then use the drop down for &#8220;Analytic Layers&#8221; if you want to generate a crime density heat map.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see as you generate maps, many areas of the city have more crime reports than neighborhoods in west Savannah or the chosen site for the city&#8217;s new arena.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5595881567027133\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"4374909701\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the reasons I generated these maps, please read my City Talk column today: Arena debate sparks misplaced crime concerns. I generated maps looking at crime reports over the past year using the website Raids Online. The site is linked&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2013\/09\/10\/a-few-savannah-crime-maps\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8],"tags":[68],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Picture-519-e1378812963430.png?fit=670%2C386","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-1Bg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6154"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}