Mapping Shootings in Philadelphia

Since 2015, the Philadelphia Police Department has published a detailed database of every shooting in the city, totalling nearly 13,000 incidents. The data includes geographic coordinates, shown here as latitude (lat) and longitude (lng) in decimal degrees …

… and these coordinates can be brought into a mapping program to produce dots on a map marking their locations. The map below shows where the coordinates shown above appear on a map among the nearly 1,000 shootings since 2015 that occurred around Philadelphia’s Hunting Park neighborhood.

Source: Philadelphia Police Dept.

John Duchneskie / Staff Artist

Mapping Shootings

In Philadelphia

Since 2015, the Philadelphia Police Department has published a detailed database of every shooting in the city, totalling nearly 13,000 incidents. The data includes geographic coordinates, shown here as latitude (lat) and longitude (lng) in decimal degrees …

… and these coordinates can be brought into a mapping program to produce dots on a map marking their locations. The map below shows where the coordinates shown above appear on a map among the nearly 1,000 shootings since 2015 that occurred around Philadelphia’s Hunting Park neighborhood.

Source: Philadelphia Police Dept.

John Duchneskie / Staff Artist