Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Click Click

Although there have been 6 break-ins, 1 hold up and 1 vehicle theft in the past month  within a 3 block radius our single family home neighborhood in Riverdale so far, is safe enough. There’s plenty to love about being in a big city with so much history, and industry but this aspect is only sad.  It’s a place where different worlds can exist just streets apart. In the past 12 days, there have been 5 homicides within a 3 mile radius of our home, and 12 total in the county. Happy New Year!? Last year, there were 91 homicides in our county (Prince George’s). Sound bad? That’s almost half (down from 173) of those in 2005.
Here’s a map with this year’s damages; shaded part is our county. http://burgersub.org/murders2011.htm?lat=38.961719&lng=-76.883464&zoom=11&county=4&town=45
Below are links to maps with all of the homicides for the area plotted for 2010.
  

2 comments:

Jenny said...

That is how it was when we were in Florida and I thought it was so bizarre. Our couple blocks was 'completely safe', but x amount of blocks down the road it was dangerous and 3 miles down the road (probably less) was nonstop gang warfare.

the firths said...

Yeah, some places it's part of the price of affordable rent.