homicides in the district to date

i know this isn't the most uplifting of posts, but it is interesting. homicide watch is a fantastic blog that's sprung up in the past year. laura norton amico started the blog to "mark every death. remember every victim. follow every case." in the district. she's created a fascinating chronicle of the stories that are too soon forgotten. (i actually wish she would have started this a few years ago when nannaboo was murdered because that case has been lost to history for a long time.)

today she posted a spread sheet containing all of the information on this year's murders to date. that got me wondering if there was any pattern to the madness; which led me to develop this map ... zoom in on any of the place markers to view the exact area of a particular homicide. many of the sites are in or near public housing projects. nearly all of those neighborhoods have a similar plan - non-descript, low rise buildings on cul-de-sacs, or dead end streets with no neighborhood services in sight.


View Homicides in the District to Date in a larger map