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Summary

I am sorry it all is kind of out of wack I brought it from google docs to this.

Having lived in Queens most of my life I’ve heard and seen situations of crime everywhere. I also have this app called the “Citizens App” which detects where crime is happening throughout your neighborhood. So I would say I have a general idea on where most of the crime is happening and what times it usually occurs. The crime rate in my area is above average even though there is a precinct nearby. No matter what time it is in my block I have only once seen a police officer stroll by my block to make sure all was well. The only time they came was for a call from one of my neighbors. You will see crime on broad days and nobody does anything about it, which it shouldn’t be like that.

When you hop on the train stop you will see homeless people wasting on the floor and living under stairs. Jamaica Queens is one of 10 communities citywide that experience the highest incidences of family homelessness. Even though I have never been in a situation where a homeless person tried to attack me I have heard stories from friends who have. In their story, “because he didn’t let the homeless guy use his lighter, the homeless guy followed him outside the station and started running after him.” This type of situation could happen at any time in my neighborhood when it shouldn’t be like that. Another situation in my neighborhood where a homeless person made someone feel unsafe was outside in my cousin’s backyard. My cousin had just let his daughter out there to play for a little. Once she got done playing and went inside, a homeless guy went to the backyard to try and collect some cans and bottles from the recycle bin. Good thing my cousin’s daughter just came in when she did but we can’t imagine what would have happened had she stayed out there.

These are a bunch of images of homeless people idle or on drugs in areas they should not be. It is obviously a sad sight to see people with so much potential on the sidewalk but the danger they pose should be dealt with before more people get attacked or worse killed.

Here is a chart that shows the poverty, unemployment rates, mental illnesses rate of homelessness and how Queens compares to other boroughs

The number of people residing in Queens’ streets and other public areas is not formally estimated. However, outreach organizations report that there are more homeless people living on the streets in Jamaica, Astoria, and Corona.

The area I live in is very diverse compared to other parts of Queens. Here is a chart that shows the different races and ethnicities in Jamaica compared to other boroughs.

As you can see there is a huge difference in the amount of people of the race white and black compared to other boroughs. There is over a 30% difference in both.

Another important correlation when talking about my neighborhood is the age correlation with race.

From the information in the chart you can see there is a low diversity when it comes to people under the age 19. But after 34 the race starts to become more diverse. For all this information on statistical atlas they used computed reasonable estimates of the same statistics that are presented for other entity types. Each statistic is computed as the weighted sum or average of the census tracts or block groups that overlap the neighborhood.

Now let’s talk about the crime rate for my neighborhood. In my neighborhood the overall crime rate is 14 per 1000 residents which is better than the average borough. Queens’ crime rate is lower than 20% of New York communities. From the analysis on “NeighborhoodScout” it says that violent crimes occur in Queens at a higher rate than most communities. A person has a 1 in 308 chance of falling victim to a violent crime in Queens, such as an armed robbery, serious assault, rape, or murder. This comes out to a rate of 3 per 1,000 people.