An online tool to see gun shootings in Portland Neighborhoods has been revised to include more data. Public access to this data can be valuable to homebuyers, criminology researchers as well as businesses and community groups. Cell phones has made it easier to see data on the spot.
Local police all over the country attend various meetings among many groups. This is the type of tools officers in high ranks like to provide to the community. Some feel that an active and inform community is empowered to make their communities better. The website to click for this major information tool is here:
https://www.portland.gov/police/open-data/shooting-incident-statistics
The dashboard has been revised from the previous edition used by most that have had access to this data. A news release from the PPB outlined the revisions as follows:
-Neighborhood Shooting Incident Map
On the ‘Neighborhood Incident’ tab, select a neighborhood from the dropdown menu to see a graduated point map of shooting incidents occurring in a neighborhood. Points represent locations at the block level with a shooting incident. The point size increases as the volume of shootings at the location increases.
-Tool Tips
Users can hover over data points to see additional statistics, such as percent change from prior time period or volume of shootings by type at the location.
-Additional Open Data Fields
The number of casings recovered during the incident and the time of the shooting (2-hr interval) have been added as field in the open data download.
-More Detailed Information
Information regarding the features of the Shooting Incident Statistics dashboard can be found on the dashboard’s menu under the Visualization Walkthrough section.
One of the glaring data packs that the interactive tool shows is the huge difference in the amount of shootings in 2019 and 2020. Portland had more than double the shootings in 2020. You are also able to see the shootings by precinct.
Gun violence has long and tranatic effects to many in communities. That is one reason online tools like this receive attention from such a broad amount of groups. Gun violence can take many forms, domestic violence, school shootings, shootings by police, gun suicides and suicide attempts, gun homicides and assaults, and unintentional shootings.
There are communities where a significant amount of people have be touched by gun violence. Some are survivors no different than someone who has been in a war. Identifying as a survivor of gun violence encompasses many different experiences: witnessing an act of gun violence, receiving threats with or being wounded by a gun, or having someone you know or care for wounded or killed with a gun.
