Rome people publish a map of drug dealers to fight narcotraffic
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In some areas Athens is like that (e.g. Omonia Square at night).
I'm not quite understanding the intended goal of the map is all.
Seems to me that the Italians are doing better here.
You basically see the homicide rate spike up in conjunction with mafia wars, which can kill up to 1000 victims in the span of a handful of years.
It's almost like there are different factors that affect crime rates than simple access to firearms :^)
Would that be considered one of your 'different factors', that it has no real urban environments to compare to New York (eg NYC 8M) or Italy (eg Rome 4M)? Hardly an apples-to-apples comparison.
Let's try Washington, D.C. (population ~600,000) with almost 22 murders per 100k vs Houston, TX (population ~2 million) which had 11.8 murders per 100,000. Both are urban environments, and in this case the more populous one did not have a higher homicide rate.
But let's back up for a second and see if these differences are even meaningful. Comparing the overall rates for the US and and Italy (and assuming that all people are equally likely to be murdered), you have a 0.00001% chance of getting murdered in Italy and a 0.00005% chance of getting murdered in the US.
you have a 0.00001% chance of getting murdered in Italy and a 0.00005% chance of getting murdered in the US.
Presenting the statistics this way? Yes, you really do need to study criminology a bit more to understand why this is a bad way to present data. In Honduras, you have a 0.0009% chances of getting murdered (per year). Still sounds tiny, yet that country is the murder capital of the world and very much not safe to live in.
It's also worth noting that I never said that crime was directly proportional to population.
Edit: the other side of the 0.00005% argument is: if you're making the argument that it's really rare to die from guns, then why bother with the 'if only X had a gun' argument? If it's that 'rare', why bother making that argument in the first place?
While it's obvious that the area is dangerous, where did you read that "People get shot just by trespassing"? Or, that "the police does not care (probably bribed?)"? Police in Rome is really on a budget (like almost everything in Italy). I wouldn't be surprised there was a single patrol at night that's assigned with that whole area (actually, I wouldn't be surprised the area assigned was much larger than that).
Edit: Procuratorate was (in 2003) not willing to investigate further after 150 arrests in 6 months. That's where you might suspect bribery.
From the page: "Parziale e incompleta mappa interattiva di ciò che ha prodotto al Pigneto il narcotraffico e l'inerzia degli amministratori. La testimonianza della loro vergogna e della nostra quotidiana umiliazione. Ma anche della nostra resistenza. Scriveteci per correzioni, segnalazioni e commenti."
Literally: "Incomplete interactive map of what drug trafficking and inertia by the city administration has produced. A witness of what they should be ashamed of, and what is humiliating us daily, but also of our resistance. Write us for corrections, reports and comments."
What follows is a list of 'interesting' places. There are two death places in the map, one is labeled "Luogo di consumo e morte" = "Place of [drug] use and death", the other "Vittima del conflitto - nordafricano sgozzato alle otto di sera" = "Victim of the fight - [a] North African [illegal alien] slaughtered at eight pm" http://www.ilmessaggero.it/ROMA/CRONACA/pigneto_nordafricano...
The core problem with any service like this is twofold: you first need to get enough volume to make it sustainable, and then you need a lot of human moderation to clean up the junk.
I see from the map that it's pretty likely that there was a good deal of commerce in other than Big Macs on that night.