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Here at UKCrimeStats, we’ve been doing crime mapping and working with heatmaps since 2011. UKCrimeStats subscribers find it useful to run heatmaps over their chosen area, their chosen time period and by all or any particular crime type. See video here for details. It’s important to understand though that the UK has a rich tradition […]
Using shape-matched data from UKCrimeStats, a fascinating paper was recently published online here – Fluctuation Scaling, Taylor’s Law and Crime. We will be publishing shortly an article by one of the authors, Quentin Hanley of Nottingham Trent University about the paper and what it all means.
Last Saturday morning I was invited to speak at a workshop entitled “Let’s work out a Police & Crime Plan for North Wales” organised by Richard Hibbs, the Independent Candidate for North Wales – details of the occasion are here. It was an excellent event, lots of different and engaging viewpoints – plurality in other […]
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; […]
Are MPs responsible for crime or the lack thereof in their constituencies? Of course not. But we know they’re very interested in it and many people identify more closely with their constituency than their Police Neighbourhood. These are a sometimes arbitrary administrative division, the boundaries of which are yet to be released and have since […]