DEXTER TRAINING GROUND

PARK CRIME - Understanding the Context of Crime

The crime maps shown here were generated with GIS software
(Arcview 3.2), using a crime report database for the entire city of
Providence. They express the 'density' of the mapped criminal violations,
meaning that both the distribution and the clustering of the violations are
conveyed. For more detailed information on the methodology involved
in creating the maps, go to Park Crime Methods and view the last section
entitled 'Processing and manipulating the resulting crime maps'.

The total crime density map illustrates that all the crime hotspots are located away from the park. However, looking at the specific crime-type maps indicates that there are environmental disorder hotspots on the intersection of Cranston and Parade Streets (adjacent to the park's southern edge), and drug violation hotspots on Cranston Street in between Parade and Dexter Streets. The Cranston-Parade intersection has an overall clustering effect - there are violations of five of the six crime-types located there. Another obvious feature of the crime maps is the presence of two 'problem areas' on either side of the park's perimeter that have recurring violations - one on Parade Street which is a single property, and one on Dexter Street which is a cluster of several neighboring properties. Together, the two areas have violations of every crime type.

(Note: The units for all density calculations are violations/acre)