1. THE SPACIAL CHARACTER OF URBAN CRIME —— BASED ON CHESTER FIELD AND ITS SUROUNDING AREA JIE GAO. UP206A. FEB, 2012

2. Data Resource: http://crime.latimes.com/ a notoriously dangerous region of the City of Los Angeles which had an extensive history of gang violence starting in the 1920s. Crime has steadily dropped since the late ‘90s, However gang activity has not declined.

3. AREA:34.13 km 2 POPULATION:145743

4. BACK GROUND OF THE AREA The percentage of black people is high for the county. Moderately diverse for the city and the county

5. SPACIAL CHARACTER OF SOCIETY The percentage of black people is high for the county. Moderately diverse for the city and the county

6. CRIME DISTRIBUTION: COUNT SLAUSON AVE HARBOR FWY FLORENCE AVE

7. CRIME DISTRIBUTION: TIME

9. CRIME DISTRIBUTION: TYPE From AUG-2011 to FEB- 2012

10. BUILT-UP ENVIROMENT: BUS STOP

11. BUILT-UP ENVIROMENT: LAND- USE

12. NEXT STEPS Deeper statistical analysis of specific area: relate to spatial characters More statistical comparisons of the data: Recognize basic spatial factors and models

13. SKILL USED Inset Map Graduated Color Map, Spatial Join Attribute sub-sets selections Boundary sub-sets selections Geocoding Buffer

14. DATA SOURCES http://www.crimemapping.com/ http://crime.latimes.com ESRI Census 2000 TIGER/Line® Data UCLA Map Share GOOGLE EARTH BING MAP