{"id":85,"date":"2018-12-07T00:52:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T07:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/reespillizzi\/?page_id=85"},"modified":"2018-12-09T01:39:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T08:39:17","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/reespillizzi\/geob-370-final-project\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apart from sports, architecture, or food Chicago\u2019s main reputation <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_86\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-86\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/reespillizzi\/files\/2018\/12\/shells--300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/reespillizzi\/files\/2018\/12\/shells--300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/reespillizzi\/files\/2018\/12\/shells--768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/reespillizzi\/files\/2018\/12\/shells--1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/reespillizzi\/files\/2018\/12\/shells--1140x641.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/reespillizzi\/files\/2018\/12\/shells--552x311.jpg 552w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/reespillizzi\/files\/2018\/12\/shells-.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Chicago police officer places numbered markers near shell casings after a shooting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>to the rest of the world is one of\u00a0mass violence. Over the course of one early <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">August\u00a0<\/span>weekend this year, there were 66 shootings and 12 fatalities. As of today, there have been 2,693 shootings in the city of Chicago. \u00a0Not so long ago I was asked where I was from by a complete stranger on vacation. Upon answering, their response was only \u201cAh yes, Chicago\u2026 Michael Jordan, \u2018Bang bang\u2019\u201d as he hit me with finger guns. All major urban centers have a higher level of crime than in their suburbs. Chicago is no exception. But growing up around this city has demonstrated to me there is not an even distribution of crimes. From reading reports and watching the news it is evident there are several main areas throughout different parts of the city that produce most of the violent crime. An easy surface level explanation is this happens due to the large amounts of gang activity in these areas. But why these areas? The increase in frequency and sheer amount of incidents of violent crime have created a major problem for Chicago&#8217;s citizens, law enforcement, and city officials alike.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">Apart from sports, architecture, or food Chicago\u2019s main reputation to the rest of the world is one of\u00a0mass violence. Over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52837,"featured_media":0,"parent":77,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-85","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/reespillizzi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/reespillizzi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/reespillizzi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/reespillizzi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52837"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/reespillizzi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/reespillizzi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/reespillizzi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions\/157"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/reespillizzi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/reespillizzi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}