Detroit has consistently had one of the highest crime rates in the United States, with 386 murders in 2012 according to Forbes. Over the past decade, 200,000 residents have left Detroit, with 40% of current residents planning to leave in the next 5 years, yet murder rates have remained nearly the same. The document is a spatial analysis of crime in Detroit using ArcGIS mapping software to map out crime data from four different maps to analyze crime patterns across the city.