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Whilst we wait for www.police.uk, a government-sponsored website competing in and crowding out a supposedly emerging open data marketplace, to have a full run of publicity – The Sunday Times yesterday, press today and tomorrow – pending a late release of monthly and additional data that we as 3rd party developers were not consulted on […]
Some of you have been asking when we will have the data ready on UKCrimeStats for the month of December 2011 – so were we ! Unfortunately, as 3rd party developers, we are beholden to the external release by Police.uk which is meant to appear on the 25th of every month. Our inquiries have now […]
Last week, for the first time, I actually used the QR code (Quick Response) scanner on my Blackberry and I belatedly realised what a great invention they are. No difficult and long urls – just scan and it takes you straight there and then you can share the QR code by facebook or email. UKCrimeStats […]
Of course our site – www.ukcrimestats.com – is about British crime statistics, but we can’t ignore what’s happening in America. The big picture is that nationwide in the USA, crime has fallen a lot and continues to fall even through the recession and on the way out. The hard question is why? As this flies […]
We have just rolled out a new capability to UKCrimeStats – a unique page with monthly history for every street (see our streets page here) that has had a crime on it. Here is London’s Oxford Street – scene of a terrible gang murder right in the middle of the Boxing Day. As you’ll see […]