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We now have 11 months of aggregated data on UKCrimeStats – a special thanks again to our Chief Data Architect for working to make this available asap. We have some new upgrades coming through shortly which we’re excited about too – watch this space. On a separate note – we are aware of – and […]
This is a post I started writing back in June and parked for a bit. Now it’s very much back in the news. And just a couple of days ago, the Conservative Party set up this page for potential candidates to apply. When we set up UKCrimeStats we understood back then that elected Police heads […]
Following on from our post yesterday, we had a look at the Guardian data on the riots and thought we’d try uploading it – here is our new Riots page. And because we are able to pinpoint which neighbourhood these events occurred in, we can very quickly see that the impact on the neighbourhood crime […]
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. […]
A very special thanks to the National Policing Improvement Agency who have shared with us the underlying breakdown of Crimes and ASB incidents allocated to the six very broad categories we are given Crime and ASB data on. These are; Burglary, Robbery,l Vehicle, Violent, Other and ASB. Now we know the subcategories for […]
That might be one interpretation of David Cameron’s piece in the Daily Telegraph yesterday who said; “You’ll be able to see not just what crimes have been committed on your street, but what action the police have taken“ Presumably this data will be released to 3rd party developers like ourselves. But it would be helpful […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]