1. Crime in Detroit City:
Spatial Analysis from ArcGIS
Evan Langford
CRP483
11/20/13
2. Detroit City: Crime Background
• Most dangerous city in the U.S. for 5th year in a
row according to Forbes (Fisher 2013)
• 386 murders in 2012 (Fisher 2013)
• 40% of residents plan to leave in the next 5 years,
while 50.9% would have left already if they could
(Macdonald 2012)
• 200,000 have moved away since 2000, but
murders per year remain nearly the same (Fisher
2013)
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