Stratification based on geographic location in Stockton

Where are these neighborhoods located?

• Here is another version of the picture. • Source: http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/stockton/crime/

Ponce De Leon

Bedlow Drive

Kelley Drive

• Crime• Poverty• Pollution

Crime• Stockton has the second highest crime rate in the State of California.• 10th Most Violent in the United States of America.• Recorded 71 Homicides on 2012• An increase of crime rate by 11% from 2011-2012• An Increase in firearm violence up to 10%• Firearm assaults on Police officers up to 400%

• Source: http://www.stocktongov.com/files/2013_2_08_MarshallPlan_SymposiumOverviewPowerPoint_34pages.pdf

But wait there’s more• In 2011 alone there were:

– 58 murders– 90 rape victims– 1,323 robberies– 2,687 assaults– 4,133 Burglaries– 9,651 Thefts– 1,679 Auto-thefts– 86 Arsons

Source: http://city-data.com/city/Stockton-California.html

Poverty• According to the Bureau of Labors

Statistics, Stockton’s unemployment rate is 17.5%.

• 29.3% of Stockton’s residence are below the poverty line

• In the game of star power, most people in Stockton are considered “triangles”

Pollution

• Stockton is one of the most polluted cities in this nation.

• Source: http://www.stateoftheair.org/2012/city-rankings/compare-your-air.html?msa=313899902&msa=216282925

Questions we need to ask ourselves

• What makes some neighborhoods in Stockton a “shadowy place”?• Why do parents shake their knees and warn their children to stay

away from those neighborhoods?• Why are there so many bad neighborhoods in Stockton?• Does the people in a neighborhood become bad because the

neighborhood is labeled bad OR are the people in that neighborhood bad, and in turn makes the neighborhood be labeled bad?