capitol hill’s imaginary edginess
After last night’s thoroughly fun Fiery Furnaces show, Matt thanked us all profusely for staying out so late on a school night and wished us a safe trip home. This seemed kind of hilarious since it was a little before one and we were in Capitol Hill. But maybe he’d gotten word of all of the crime in our neighborhood and had a point. After all, this year’s not been so good in terms of mass killings and gun-brandishing youth being shot on streetcorners.
It seems that my overconfidence in the safety of the neighborhood was not simply a case of blissful ignorance. At least not according to K and/or J at capitolhillseattle.blogspot.com. They dug up some crime numbers, put together a big spreadsheet, and ran the numbers. By their calculations, the overall number of crimes in the neighborhood hasn’t changed much since last year. Even if you don’t live in [Ed: on?] Capitol Hill, their tallies are worth a look — they’ve mapped the city’s census tracks and highlighted both “most improved” as well as nascent crime outbreak zones.
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On the other hand, Neumos’ census tract 75 ranks in the top 10 by raw totals for all crimes combined — 60% of those were categorized as theft. Ranks pretty much same as last year so no big change (we mapped areas of greatest change) but there’s still a lot of crime. It’s just not getting worse — unlike Madrona! I’ll let somebody with more ability and time on their hands figure out per capita cut of things.