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 shows the presence of two main hotspots near to the park. One is located on the southwestern corner of the park on the corner of Whelan Road and Lower Street. The other is situated nearby the southeastern corner of the park on the corner of Hartford Avenue and Bodell Avenue. Aside from environmental disorder violations, all the other crime-type maps show violations greatly clustered in these two hot spots. The violent crime map also possesses another nearby hotspot which is located on the corner of Hartford Avenue and Lower Avenue.

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