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Looking for Trouble
The San Francisco Police Department has a GIS (geographical information system) up on the web now. This shows a "pin map" of a selected part of San Francisco indicating where particular crimes have taken place over the last 90 days. (You can select the center-point, display radius, number of days into the past, and mixture of crimes to display).

Each crime is displayed with a symbol that you can click on to view a summary crime report.

To view this wonder of technology, visit this URL: http://www.sfgov.org/site/police_index.asp?id=23813

Clicking around, I have learned the following:

The Tenderloin is a dangerous place.

When I walk South on Jones Street towards Market, I pass through three distinct narcotic micro-climates. Crack, Pills (Oxy and Vicodin), & Grass. Yes, people do get arrested for possessing pot in San Francisco!

The zone from where I live over to Diva's is less dangerous.

They don't have a category for vice offenses (beyond drugs), so you can't figure out where the sex-work strolls are from this data source. (Although conventional wisdom puts the trannies near Post and Larkin and the GGs around 16th and Mission).
posted by Jamie at 5:11 PM