Street crime

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

Posted: February 26, 2012 Author: Dan Lewis

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 […]

UKCrimeStats now showing historic street crime data by street

Posted: January 3, 2012 Author: Dan Lewis

We have just rolled out a new capability to UKCrimeStats – a unique page with monthly history for every street (see our streets page here) that has had a crime on it. Here is London’s Oxford Street – scene of a terrible gang murder right in the middle of the Boxing Day. As you’ll see […]