March 8th, 2006 | by Derek | published in Mapping, State Data
James Prado Roberts and Paul D’Ambrosio of Gannett New Jersey Newspapers studied that state’s sexual offender notification law, finding that “New Jersey’s law now stands as one of the weakest in the nation in immediately warning residents when a sex offender moves into their neighborhood … it can take prosecutors and judges several months to [...]
March 7th, 2006 | by Derek | published in Local Data, Mapping
David Slade and John Frank of the Charleston Post and Courier used local property data and tax records to highlight perceived abuses in the state’s agricultural assessment program. “Local farms and timber operations benefitted, as intended, but so did large developers with multimillion-dollar tracts of land. Many of those developers paid less property tax last [...]
March 6th, 2006 | by Derek | published in Local Data, Mapping
Phillip Reese and Terri Hardy of the Sacramento Bee (which is having a very active year for CAR work) used local crime data and mapping to find that “liquor stores and certain crimes in Sacramento go hand in hand. More than 60 percent of the city’s robberies and drug crimes from February 2004 through June [...]
February 13th, 2006 | by Derek | published in Local Data, Mapping
Matthew Haggman, Lisa Arthur and Tim Henderson of the Miami Herald analyzed home sale data in South Florida to find that “the land rush has transformed just about every corner and corridor of the region, sending prices skyward since 2000 — more than 150 percent in Pompano Beach, more than 200 percent in Hallandale Beach [...]
February 2nd, 2006 | by Derek | published in Local Data, Mapping
William Kleinknecht and Jonathan Schuppe of the Newark Star-Ledger, with assistance from Rob Gebeloff, reported that “from 1998 through 2003, fewer than half the murders in Essex County resulted in a conviction. And even when killers were convicted, only one in four received the legislatively mandated 30-year minimum, largely due to plea bargains.” The paper [...]