Posts tagged "Crime"

The recent murder of a young woman in Seoul's Gangnam district has prompted discussion about the treatment of women in South Korean society, including lingering gender inequality, harassment and even physical violence.... Read more →

Note: My family last year relocated to Seoul, where my wife is working as a foreign correspondent for NPR. This post is part of an occasional series profiling the peninsula’s demographics and... Read more →

More than 20 years after his blockbuster murder trial, O.J. Simpson is back in the news — this time after Los Angeles police reportedly found a knife on the grounds... Read more →

Today I started playing with CartoDB, an online data mapping service that reminds me in some ways of both Google Fusion Tables and TileMill. To start, I grabbed a simple... Read more →

HomicideWatch D.C. charted 2011 homicides late last month. This is a great batch of data, all hand collected by Laura and Chris Amico.  Read more →

The Los Angeles Times has released a nifty interactive map and table of the recent arson fires in the City of Angels:  Since the morn­ing of Dec. 30, a wave of... Read more →

The FBI today released its mid-year crime figures from large cities around the county, and the data are positive, NPR reports:  The number of violent crimes reported by 12,500 U.S. law enforcement... Read more →

The Washington, D.C., official data catalog is a rich source for information about the nation’s capitol. Users can download dozens of free GIS products as well as datasets related to city... Read more →