‘What’s the safest place in the Boston area?’ was something I was curious to find out after I heard the City of Boston had published all of their Crime Incidents reports between 2012-2015. In short summary Cambridge is one of the safest places (or the safest) you might find in Boston with no reported shootings nearby Harvard or MIT campus.
Figure 1: There seem to be between 6k-8k incidents in Boston every month. That includes very wide scope of incidents ranging from property loss to homicide.
Figure 2: Out of almost 270.000 incidents reported between 2012-2015 there were only 697 that involved a gun shooting.
Figure 3: Finally when looking only at incidents with gunshots in the time period, everything north of the Charles river seems to be safe.
Cambridge is safe and data proves it! When discussing this with a #husbandoncampus college in the Harvard MPA program, he suggested I should find data points on cycling data in Boston and add it on top of the incident report to see if there is a correlation.
