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Online Graphic: Pittsburgh vs. East Liberty crime stats
Thursday, May 25, 2000
In 1999, there were 21,419 Part I crimes in the city. Part I crimes are serious offenses, including murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and larceny. Of those 21,419 crimes, 911 were committed within the three census tracts commonly referred to as the heart of East Liberty, which includes the shopping district along Penn Avenue where Bolan's and Sam's have been all these years.
These numbers suggest that about 4 percent of the serious crimes in the city occur in East Liberty, while 2 percent of the city's population lives there. Al Blumstein a nationally known criminology at Carnegie Mellon University professor said a neighborhood would be considered a true problem area if the percentages went beyond 6 percent. "The fact of the matter is East Liberty is not as bad as it could be, but it's still not very good," Blumstein said.
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