The Meadowview neighborhood of south Sacramento is under a microscope following the Stephon Clark shooting.
The 22-year-old unarmed black man was shot in his grandmother's backyard in a neighborhood often associated with poverty and crime.
Meadowview stretches between I-5 to about Franklin Boulevard in between Florin Road and Cosumnes River Boulevard, to form a rectangular pocket in the vast area that is south Sacramento.
ABC10 analyzed violent crime statistics for the city of Sacramento to see if Meadowview's reputation matches the numbers. For the purpose of this project, violent crime includes aggravated assault, assault, battery, arson, homicide and robbery.
When the violent crime rates in select neighborhoods are compared, the rate seems relatively even, with the exception of the Downtown/Midtown/Richards area. Nearly all of the neighborhoods analyzed fell between a two and eight percent violent crime rate.
Using crime statistics from Sacramento's Open Data Portal for 2016 and 2017, ABC10 learned Meadowview accounted for five percent of the violent crime that occurred within city limits over the past two years. In 2016, Meadowview accounted for 175 violent crimes of the 3,493 violent crimes in the city. In 2017, that number went nearly unchanged, with 191 violent crimes in Meadowview of the city's 3,702 total.
In comparison, the Downtown/Midtown area, which also includes the Southern Pacific/Richards area, accounted for nearly 20 percent of the crime in the past two years. The region is slightly smaller than Meadowview .
South Natomas held about eight percent of the city's violent crime statistic share in 2016 and 2017, while the Del Paso Heights neighborhood accounted for another eight percent of violent crimes over the past two years.
The Arden area consisted of about six percent of the violent crimes in the city over the past two years.
Meadowview actually had a violent crime rate comparable to the North Natomas suburban region, which had a rate of four percent in the past two years. East Sacramento — one of the city's wealthiest neighborhoods — had a two percent violent crime rate, only slightly lower than Meadowview's rate.