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First of all, let me start by saying it is a truly great achievement of the Home Office to release crime data for 3rd party developers. We are really leading the world in this one. Secondly, it is unrealistic to expect the release of such a huge dataset to be an entirely frictionless affair. […]
I was interested to learn from the BBC that Leeds City Council are to spend £1.3m over four years to reduce the number of burglaries. I’ve just run a report on our Neighbourhoods page across all of England and Wales, between December 2010 and April 2011 and it’s true there’s a serious problem – the […]
Along with 429 other competitors across Europe, we entered our application – this website www.ukcrimestats.com – to the Open Data Challenge. I’ve no idea who the other competitors are or what they’ve done and I look forward to finding out – that’s bound to give me some new ideas. It’s great the challenge has had […]
We’re always very keen to have feedback, both good and bad, from the Public and the Police so please don’t hesitate to get in touch. The easiest way is to email us on crime@economicpolicycentre.com From the start we decided to be very open with errors and shortcomings in the data, and your feedback has helped […]
Are MPs responsible for crime or the lack thereof in their constituencies? Of course not. But we know they’re very interested in it and many people identify more closely with their constituency than their Police Neighbourhood. These are a sometimes arbitrary administrative division, the boundaries of which are yet to be released and have since […]
Read it here – along with a number of other useful contributions organised by the excellent Freakonomics team. Bill Bratton, former head of NYPD and LAPD says; “There is no immediate causal relationship between poverty or economic downturns and crime. An increase in employment or a decline in GDP usually will not lead to a […]
According to Jill Matheson, National Statistician of the Office of National Statistics, both the British Crime Survey (who’s shortcomings I have explained here) and the Police figures (which we use) were not properly covering crimes against children, businesses, fraud and cyber crime – and some anti-social behaviour were not included either in the figures. So […]
How many months makes a trend? I was very wary at the start to draw hasty conclusions, but with 5 months of totalled data, we do seem to have something of a trend. There is still much to learn though. What I don’t know for example; Is there a seasonal/temperature variation, i.e. more crime in […]
According to the Daily Telegraph ! When we have the data for June 2011, which will be in late July check to see if there is the same spike of thefts that happened last year. And we can compare it to the other music festivals too. We’d need to check that the relevant Police […]