Month: February 2012

Why UKCrimeStats tells you more than Police.uk

Today, we launch a major new advance in UKCrimeStats. We’ve come a long way since April last year when I wrote this post – 10 reasons why UKCrimeStats is better than Police.uk and not much has changed since then with the government’s taxpayer-funded website. In the meantime, we’ve done a lot and are about to move […]

The trouble with measuring crime by (on or near a) street

We’ve had a lot of positive feedback from the media coverage we received in the Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph today. Since we launched UKCrimeStats last April, we’ve always made clear that the official police data that we use that gives us Easting/Northings which can be mapped to a street are not a precise location […]

December 2011 data going live this Sunday

Thanks for your patience – this month we had to add another 100,000 snap points rather than a few thousand and we had a number of new capabilities that needed testing – it’s all very time-consuming. So apologies for the delay but we hope you will feel it was worth the wait. What is coming; […]

Predictive policing – now coming across Birmingham

If you didn’t see this short report on Channel 4 news last night, watch it on catchup tv here. It’s good to see that West Midlands Police are experimenting with this and now about to roll it out across Birmingham. For all that, when I heard the reporter say “Ironically, America stole the idea from Britain” […]