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  • March 11th ::: #san francisco life #mission district #SF #gangs & cupcakes ?
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    theatlantic: Cupcake Wars: Violence and Sugar Go Together This map, created by UC Berkeley undergrad Danya Al-Saleh, overlays bakeries in the Mission district of San Francisco with Norteño and Sureño gang territory (for a larger PDF version, click here). As Al-Saleh writes, cupcakes and gangs, violence and sugar, “are perceived to exist in separate worlds.” And yet, as the Mission Local blog reports, a recent homicide, followed swiftly by a lunchtime gunfight, “offered Mission District residents a reminder that the hip neighbourhood where they feast on everything from the latest doughnut recipe to cupcakes and artisan pork rinds is also a place where gang violence still exists, and where a 2007 gang injunction is still in place.” Read the rest of the story here theatlantic: Cupcake Wars: Violence and Sugar Go Together This map, created by UC Berkeley undergrad Danya Al-Saleh, overlays bakeries in the Mission district of San Francisco with Norteño and Sureño gang territory (for a larger PDF version, click here). As Al-Saleh writes, cupcakes and gangs, violence and sugar, “are perceived to exist in separate worlds.” And yet, as the Mission Local blog reports, a recent homicide, followed swiftly by a lunchtime gunfight, “offered Mission District residents a reminder that the hip neighbourhood where they feast on everything from the latest doughnut recipe to cupcakes and artisan pork rinds is also a place where gang violence still exists, and where a 2007 gang injunction is still in place.” Read the rest of the story here

    theatlantic:

    Cupcake Wars: Violence and Sugar Go Together

    This map, created by UC Berkeley undergrad Danya Al-Saleh, overlays bakeries in the Mission district of San Francisco with Norteño and Sureño gang territory (for a larger PDF version, click here).

    As Al-Saleh writes, cupcakes and gangs, violence and sugar, “are perceived to exist in separate worlds.” And yet, as the Mission Local blog reports, a recent homicide, followed swiftly by a lunchtime gunfight, “offered Mission District residents a reminder that the hip neighbourhood where they feast on everything from the latest doughnut recipe to cupcakes and artisan pork rinds is also a place where gang violence still exists, and where a 2007 gang injunction is still in place.”

    Read the rest of the story here

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