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We now have 19 months of data on UKCrimeStats. For all that, we’ve had a difficult month here on UKCrimeStats. For the third time in our brief history, the site was brought down by crime – hackers emanating from China-based servers – and we had some trouble recovering data. This time I didn’t report the […]
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 […]
Ok, we’ve done it. It took longer than usual because we had new 5 new crime types to build into the database. These are; Theft-shoplifting Drugs Criminal Damage and Arson Public Disorder and Weapons Theft-Other As you’ll see from our main chart below, we have added these under the Other category (from whence they came) […]
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’ve just run a quick search on UKCrimeStats and thought I’d post up these links in light of the distressing events from last night in Tottenham not least 49 fires started by rioters. Here is a link to crime in the Tottenham Constituency, of which David Lammy is MP and is in the worst […]
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 […]