Right? You have people who live in Los Angeles who, based on where they live and who they are, their crimes are almost always solved, almost always result in arrest, and other people, based on where they live in Los Angeles, or Omaha, or New York or Boston, where their crimes, if they're the victim, almost never result in arrests.Īnd many departments say that, when you look at the map, you look at the map of their unsolved homicide, and it doubles as a map of the places where they have the worst relationships with the community. But if you go to certain neighborhoods, these crimes are almost never solved.Īnd so what it does is, it speaks to the sense of two cities.

Los Angeles, another good example of this, a city that's done a really good job of getting better at solving major crime. That said, we found a 12-block area where there had been dozens, more than a dozen of homicides, and just a handful that had resulted in an arrest. I think, last year, it was seven in 10 of their homicides resulted in someone being arrested. They do a very good job and, in fact, have even gotten better in recent years. Omaha, which is where we base the beginning of this story, is a city that's one of the best in the country of solving homicides. And that may be not where you think of when you think of a place where homicide goes unsolved.Īnd so what we saw was that these geographic areas can't necessarily all be bucketed together. This neighborhood in Pittsburgh looks and feels different than this neighborhood in San Francisco or in Washington, D.C., where one of these zones is in Petworth, which is a gentrifying neighborhood. Maybe it's run-down or maybe it's exclusively poor.Īnd it's true that in, many of these neighborhoods, these are low-income minority communities.

You might get an idea in your head of what the place looks like. Now, what these communities share, there are some similarities and some differences. And so we were looking at zones where there was a high level of violence and a low level of that violence resulting in an arrest. So, what we did, again, is we mapped the homicides going back about a decade, looking not just where violence is, but where unsolved violence, where violence goes unchecked.

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