The Bay Area's robbery rates have gone up 40% since the last few years. In San Francisco and Oakland alone it's been 300,000 robberies since the year 2004. The most frequent and harmful areas happen in more crowded areas such as local BART stations, downtown, and shopping malls. There have also been many armed robberies within local grocery shopping markets and restaurants. From years 2004-2006 the Bay Area has gone up 11,264 to 15,698, and in 2007 at 15,646. Since the year 2005, strong-armed robberies have went up 9%. San Francisco's big 'hot spot' is the Tenderloins, with having 6 out of the 15 worst intersections of robberies along with downtown; Halliday Plaza and Market street. In Oakland the most frequent areas that are being robbed are Eastmont Mall, Fruitvale district, and the BART stations. The Lieutenant of San Francisco PD says that the reason these areas are being so frequently robbed is because of the quick getaways and the crowded areas.
FREQUENTLY PUBLISHED; http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgif=/c/a/2008/09/01/MN9112IJGP.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea
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15 years ago
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I think there's a hot story here. There have been daily news stories about these robberies. You also hit the point that there are patterns to their locations and the victims who are hit by these robberies. I like the use of a hyperlink to the original article, but you should footnote or make parenthetical reference to the statistics that you mentioned. You know what would be a more amazing way to show this? Create or download (and credit) a graphic showing these trends or a map of the locations in the Bay Area that are hit by these crimes. Keep up the good work!
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