In the Media

Below are a selection of mentions in the media/blogosphere for UKCrimeStats. Contact Dan Lewis on 07900 245 306 or 020 7193 4229 for media queries or on dan@economicpolicycentre.com.

Date Description
Friday 16th Mar 2012 Taxpayers suffer as vandalism hits Knighton
Monday 12th Mar 2012 Bring back taxi ranks to cut crime on Bournemouth's Fir Vale Road, say drivers
Friday 9th Mar 2012 North Wales Police chief Mark Polin partly blames economy for crime rise
Thursday 8th Mar 2012 Burglaries in Wales up 20% in year, despite falling crime
Wednesday 7th Mar 2012 Statistical skew gives Watford most violent street in Britain, police say
Monday 5th Mar 2012 Fir Vale Road in Bournemouth the sixth most violent street in the UK
Sunday 26th Feb 2012 Bournemouth on map of Britain's meanest streets
Sunday 26th Feb 2012 Britain's crime hot spots revealed
Sunday 8th Jan 2012 People probe reveals UK's 50 worst crime-hit streets
Wednesday 14 Dec 2011 POLICE say people in the North are turning to a life of crime to make “ends meet” after Government cuts
Oct-Dec 2011 Dan Lewis and UKCrimeStats.com quoted at length on Can Data Deliver Better Government? (Article by Sean Maguire)
Tuesday 13 Dec 2011 Dan Lewis of UKCrimeStats is interviewed to explain the breakdown of crime figures for Cleveland Police between Dec 2010 - Oct 11" on the Ali Brownlee show
Tuesday 13 Dec 2011 Economic gloom causes rise in burglaries
Sunday 11 Dec 2011 Austerity crimewave hits Britain
Sunday 11 Dec 2011 Britain is in the grip of an austerity crime-wave with two thirds rise in burglaries in parts of the country
Thursday 26 May 2011 New street-level crime data available
Tuesday 12 April 2011 Dan Lewis: At last, communities can start to see the reality of crime
Monday 11 April 2011 UKCrimeStats and the Cambrian Data Explosion


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