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Running this website – with much more than crime, there is constant work in staying up to date. Take postcodes for example – every 3 months, there are new postcodes, retired postcodes and postcodes that seemingly come back to life. Here they are if you are interested. We’ve also just updated Road Accidents for Calendar […]
Shoplifting has been in the news a lot recently, mostly to do with the rising level and perceived Police inaction by shopkeepers. An interesting article here in the Times points to the problems with bigger shops – self-checkout stalls and fewer staff, has also made it easier for shoplifters. As the piece says, “A change […]
A very disturbing article in the Financial Times recently about top Indian businessmen getting mugged in London. A message that was improbably passed on to the Shadow Foreign Secretary, David Lammy when he was in New Delhi. Probably not what he thought he was going there to discuss. So I decided to do some research. […]
I’ve written about this before but it’s worth pointing out again. There are real shortcomings in trying to compare different areas by crime rate. It really doesn’t give you a clear picture and leads to huge distortions. So what is crime rate again you say? Crime rate is measured by the number of crimes in […]