Murders in Baltimore 2009 and SpotCrime's Mission
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The above map was created with the data provided by the Baltimore Crime Blog . To get the map, go to SpotCrime Baltimore , change the date range from 1/1/09 to 12/31/09, and add "murdered" in the keyword search. For this map, we've changed the view type to "terrain". The Baltimore Sun has another version that can be seen here: Link to Baltimore Sun Murder Map Murders for 2009 in Baltimore is estimated to be above 230. Compared to New York's murders for 2009 ( NYT - 390), Baltimore's per capita murders would have been 15. Conversely, if New York had Baltimore's rate, there would have been 6,225 murders in New York for 2009. SpotCrime's Mission: Founded in Baltimore, SpotCrime will continue its effort to help catalog and distribute crime data for public view. It is our contention that technology advancements have made it possible for almost every police agency to make their crime data fully available to the public at minimal cost. By "