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Jerome Cukier does the heavy lifting so that you don't have to .  On to details... As Jerome puts it I have created this map of every homicide in the USA using firearms for the latest year where detailed information was available. Every, that is from all the agencies that report homicides to the FBI, which is not an obligation – this is why the map lacks Florida data. In the interactive version you can see how murders happen through the year and explore them according to several criteria that were available in the database. While large shooting sprees receive media attention, unfortunately there are thousands of cases each year in just about every community. Note that the above is just an image - go here for the actual - interactive - visualization . Incidentally, the visualization is a pretty horrific companion piece to this chart from the WP showing gun-related murders in the developed world.  We are - sadly and horrifically - No. 1 by a wide margin. Yay for th...

project WNYC has put together a nifty visualization of NYC "Stop & Frisk"s by block. Go there to get the live info (the image below is just that, an image...)