On August 29, 2014, Michael Brown, an 18-year old black male, was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, a 28-year old white male police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri, after an altercation stemming from a pedestrian stop relative to a recent robbery in the vicinity. The shooting, mixed with contradictory testimony from several onlookers, ignited civil unrest with focus…
Recently, Forbes posted America’s Most Dangerous Cities of 2015 which attempted to rank the most violent cities with populations over 200,000 persons. Despite urgings by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to refrain from making violent crime rankings, several groups such as the former Morgan Quitno and, presently, Forbes continue to put forth rankings. In this…
For our third installment of city-by-city analysis, we take a look at our nation’s capital: Washington, D.C. With a population of approximately 658,900 spanning over 61.4 square miles, D.C.’s population density is approximately 37 persons per average square city block; or 10,731 persons per square mile. D.C. having one of the highest population densities and…
Milwaukee, Wisconsin is the largest city in Wisconsin with approximately 600,000 residents and has started to notice a sharp increase in violent crimes over the recent couple years. For 2014, the Federal Bureau of Investigation noted through the Uniform Crime Report that Milwaukee had reported 90 murders, 395 reports of rape, 3,520 robberies, and 4,859 reports of aggravated assaults.…
Oakland, California is the eighth largest city in California with a population of approximately 391,000 spanning over 78 square miles in the East Bay area on the San Francisco Bay. Oakland has more than 50 distinct neighborhoods broken up into 10 primary districts: North Oakland, West Oakland, Chinatown and Central, San Antonio, Fruitvale, Central East Oakland,…
In 2013, it was reported that Madison, Wisconsin was one of the safest cities in the United States. In the FBI reports that help dictate the “safest cities” and “dangerous cities” lists, statistics on shootings, homicides, burglaries, rapes, assaults, and other various violent crime statistics are taken into consideration. Interest in these numbers typically stem from an…
Squared Statistics: Understanding Basketball Analytics 