1. Stratification based on
geographic location in Stockton

3. Where are these neighborhoods
located?

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

5. Ponce De Leon

6. Bedlow Drive

7. Kelley Drive

8. • Crime
• Poverty
• Pollution

9. 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_SymposiumOverviewP

10. 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

11. 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”

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

13. • Source:
http://www.stateoftheair.org/2012/city-rankings/compare-your-air.html?msa=31389990

14. Questionsweneedtoaskourselves
• 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?