{"id":129098,"date":"2015-12-09T08:25:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T15:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/09\/mapping-out-local-shootings.html"},"modified":"2015-12-09T08:25:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T15:25:01","slug":"mapping-out-local-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/09\/mapping-out-local-shootings.html","title":{"rendered":"Mapping out local shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article links to a fascinating interactive map about shootings &#8212; fatal and non-fatal, but not including suicides &#8212; around a given address over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>We hardly live in a high-crime area, and there only once incident recorded (&quot;There has been 1 shooting within a 2-mile radius of this point in the past year, 0 fatal and 1 non-fatal. The closest shooting was 1.82 miles away.&quot;) but I didn&#39;t know about any such incident before.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/crime\/2015\/12\/gun_deaths_map_how_many_people_have_died_or_been_injured_in_shootings_around.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/XNl2z5SrSkKfNoIXfauV4SaSIpAHl1iRi3bw9hXHN1uci5VgHusnh5qBwyXSfSziq-T74wIZJQPgwfXFIK3Jyanoj1-iT5Tzlt0_aGD52XfYxN2h4yhhvwdQfwjbSm8vZqzwN37_kaHg-dwESn0tIvMq9eswVK76QbWj5iF6tRuj_kv8x2y5VM16iwfm_-Pxi3lUzCuWQBbtW3lnajMReT2GchwB_M0ofqxQtIYiqdLPm_13dcpfRUM=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/crime\/2015\/12\/gun_deaths_map_how_many_people_have_died_or_been_injured_in_shootings_around.html'>How Many People Have Been Shot in Your Neighborhood This Year? This Map Will Tell You.<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nIn relentless succession, a parade of towns and cities has this year joined the ranks of American mass shooting locations. The mere mention of the places&mdash;C\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/JM5PJkQC2UQ'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article links to a fascinating interactive map about shootings &#8212; fatal and non-fatal, but not including suicides &#8212; around a given address over the past year. We hardly live in a high-crime area, and there only once incident recorded (&quot;There has been 1 shooting within a 2-mile radius of this point in the past &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/09\/mapping-out-local-shootings.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mapping out local shootings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42567,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/13\/because-not-all-shooting-at-a-school-is-a-school-shooting-i-guess.html","url_meta":{"origin":129098,"position":0},"title":"Because not all shooting at a school is a school shooting, I guess","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 13-Jun-14 1:35pm","format":false,"excerpt":"CNN had decided only to count people who bring firearms onto campus intending to shoot a bunch of people as \"school shootings,\" not cases of accidental shootings, gun suicides, arguments that escalate into someone drawing a gun and shooting, gang activity, or other firearms-related incidents at schools.That should make the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131215,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/07\/fact-checking-trump-police-shootings-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":129098,"position":1},"title":"Fact-checking Trump (Police Shootings Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Aug-16 1:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"No, Donald, \"they\" are not \"shooting our police at record levels.\" Nowhere close. 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