Collaborators

• BAF95
• DavidZapataCSUF
• mbarrera2020
• jakemperry

• Crimes are tied to institutions of similar nature
  • Crimes may also be associated with population
• Goals: identify trends in data to determine correlation/causation relationship

• Do places with casinos attract more criminal activities related to gambling crimes?
• Do gun stores increase gun crime activities?
• Is there a relationship between the number of liquor stores in an area to the number of reported crimes in the area?
• How is population related to gun crimes?

A detailed list of data files and their sources is provided in the "Data" folder. Data sources for this project include:

• OpenJustice website
  • Crimes and Clearances (With Arson)
  • Domestic Violence Related Calls for Service
• US Census Data API
• Google Maps API
• CA Dept of Alcoholic Beverage Control
• Arrest data from 2010-2019, LACity.org
  • This file is over 300MB and exceeds the GitHub file size limit. Please download directly from the link above. Thanks!
• Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
• Casinos and Crime in the USA
• Casinos, Crime, and Community Costs
• NYPD Shooting Incident Data (Historic), NYC OpenData
• United States Cities Database

Methods include:

• Importing data from csv files
• Calling for data using an API
• Cleaning data with pandas
• Visualizing data with matplotlib

• There is no evidence casinos attract crime
• Number of gun stores have no impact on gun crime
• Population size has some correlation with gun crime, but no clear causation
• There is a relationship between the following:
  • Number of liquor licenses and number of calls
  • Number of liquor licenses and number of weapons
  • Number of liquor licenses and population
  • Population and number of calls

A copy of the presentation is available to view through Google Drive

• The Census and Google Maps API portions of this project require keys. Please confirm you have an API key in a config file saved in the appropriate directory before running jupyter notebooks/python files that reference API keys.