Has the implementation of I-502 (the marijuana legalization initiative of 2012) caused an upsurge of gang crime activity in the Central and South districts of Seattle? We look at the crime data published by the City of Seattle focusing specifically on the East and South precincts of the city where gang activity is most prevalent.
The data originally used in the analysis has been provided in the accompanying zip archive. Due to changes at the souce it is necessary to run this analysis from the provided file. Data are processed in R and reported via RMarkdown compiled into HTML.