Density of Police Calls-for-Service, 2003: Weapons

ANCHORAGE COMMUNITY INDICATORS
A PUBLICATION
OF THE
JUSTICE CENTER
UNIVERSITY of ALASKA ANCHORAGE
November 2004
Series 3C, No. 4
Density of Police Calls-for-Service, 2003:
Weapons Offenses
Anchorage Police Calls-for-Service in the Anchorage Bowl,
2003: Weapons Offenses1
Elmendorf AFB
N
Row percentages.
K
IK
N
AR
Government
Hill
M
Downtown
Fairview
South
Addition
COOK INLET
Airport
Heights
North
Star
Turnagain
Rogers
Park
Tudor
Area
Spenard
Total Anchorage Bowl
Mountain
View
Total
Municipality
Northeast
Anchorage
Russian
Jack
Park
Fort
Richardson
Military
Reservation
All calls-for-service
Weapons-related calls-for-service
Misconduct with weapon
Assault with weapon
Disturbance with weapon
Scenic
Foothills
University
Area
Sand Lake
Basher
Abbott
Loop
MidHillside
Bayshore/
Klatt
Number of weapons
offenses calls-forservice dispatches per
square mile, 2003
Land use
Old Seward/
Oceanview
Less than 100
Airport
100 to 500
Military reservation
501 to 1,000
Park
1,001 to 1,500
Community council
1,501 to 3,000
Community council boundary
3,001 to 6,000
More than 6,000
Water
Search radius: 1,500
Area units: square miles
Output cell size: 50
Mud flats
TU
RN
AG
N
AR
Hillside
East
Huffman/
O’Malley
Glen
Alps
Rabbit
Creek
AI
Chugach
State Park
Bear
Valley
M
Ocean
Lake
0
1
2
Miles
4
Percent of
total
225,802
162,023
71.8 %
2,219
1,640
306
273
1,988
1,487
243
258
89.6 %
90.7
79.4
94.5
1 Data do not allow for distinction between different types of weapons (e.g., firearms,
knives, blunt instruments).
2 Limited to calls-for-service within the Anchorage Bowl with a geo-coded (i.e., mapped)
location. Eagle River vicinity and Girdwood not included.
Campbell
Park
Taku/
Campbell
N
2
Note: Calls-for service data where the dispatch address
was Providence Hospital, Alaska Regional Hospital, or the
Alaska Native Medical Center are not included because a
great deal of the time police are summoned to hospitals to
investigate violent incidents that occurred at other
locations, but which resulted in injuries that required
treatment at a hospital.
Number of Weapons Offenses Calls for Service Dispatches per Square Mile, 2003
© 2004 Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage