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A special thanks again to our Chief Data Architect for working over the Bank Holiday weekend to get the latest batch of crime data uploaded. Police.uk released the data on Friday 26th August in the morning and it has been live on this site since yesterday morning. Like all the other 3rd party developers, we […]
My impression is that in contrast to the early Police anti-riot operations – with all the caveats mentioned in the preceeding post – the number of arrests, charges, sentencing by the courts etc. – is going very well. As a deterrent to future flash-mob riots, it doesn’t get much better than this. A friend […]
It’s always the way. You go away for a week and then something big pops up. In this case, the largest riots in 25 years which hit the UK out of nowhere. UKCrimeStats received a record increase in traffic again – the public want to know what’s going on around them but we don’t have […]
I’ve just run a quick search on UKCrimeStats and thought I’d post up these links in light of the distressing events from last night in Tottenham not least 49 fires started by rioters. Here is a link to crime in the Tottenham Constituency, of which David Lammy is MP and is in the worst […]
I was just reading this article which was unusual because it was a detailed monthly update on crime in a specific neighbourhood – Thame. Thame falls under the jurisdiction of Thames Valley Police. I’m sure in the years to come we will see many more of these online reports of what’s going on and this […]
Last Saturday’s headline in The Times “Police admit one in three crimes not investigated – Forces give up on burglars and car thieves” got me thinking. I don’t disagree that the Police find that screening out a large number of registered crimes allows them to focus more resources where they have greater chance of success. […]