Mission Local discusses a new map that overlays cupcake shops with gang territory

I am disappointed that the overlay does not have homicide data mapped, since that is the underlying data that makes the story interesting.

Is the occasional shoot-out bad for business? To the clientele of the St. Francis Fountain, four blocks east on 24th and a hangout for the young and hip: No.

“This is the best place in town for breakfast,” said Tex, a small man in denim work clothes drinking coffee Thursday morning at the counter.

He feels safe in the Mission as a whole, though he’s been warned to be careful to not seem especially gay anywhere around the intersection of 24th and Mission. “What I was told was, there are these gangs from El Salvador, and to be in the gang you have to kill a queer.

The data on crime is publicly available, as I have written before. It might be easiest to map cupcakes to the 3D maps already created to show areas with peak crime.