In those precincts, grinding poverty persists 10 years into Mr. Chávez's rule and, with it, a fierce debate over social justice.
The $25,000-a-year wage floor would lift more than 700,000 people out of the harrowing precincts of poverty.
Thirty-eight per cent of the city's population lives below the poverty line and, in my precinct, many of the homes are abandoned.
So we ran our analysis again, this time looking at a whole range of factors that could help us understand marijuana arrests, like the racial composition, poverty and violent crime rate of precincts.
So Robert Gebeloff, a data journalist at The Times, transposed Census Bureau information about race, poverty levels and homeownership onto a precinct map.
The analysis examined how marijuana arrests were related to the marijuana-complaint rate, race, violent-crime levels, the poverty rate and homeownership data in each precinct.
Unemployment and poverty were sky-high, as was crime, overwhelming police precincts and fire stations that were squeezed by austerity.
It started on a misty morning when Whitmore, 19 years old, African-American, raised in poverty and a grade-school dropout, was taken by a handful of New York City detectives into the 73rd Precinct station house in East New York, Brooklyn.
Who chooses the precincts?
All precincts have reported.
What about the "missing" precincts?
