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An insightful piece by London Mayor Boris Johnson today and he summed up very well the issue of how useful Police buildings and stations are in fighting crime; Police buildings do not make arrests. They do not lumber down the street in pursuit of criminals. They do not observe crime, and according to most criminologists […]
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On Valentine’s Day 14th February 2013 – of all days – I was invited to give a talk to present our views and experiences of working with the crime data at a day-long seminar hosted by the Open Data Institute and funded by SOCIAM of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The discussion was […]
With the Christmas break, this took a bit longer than usual however it is now live. As always, please email me on dan@ukcrimestats.com if you see anything that looks wrong, suggestions etc. We are also in the throes of upgrading to a new forum. The old forum has become a magnet for prodigious quantities of […]
We actually did this nearly a week ago but some of you will have noticed that we had some data problems with neighbourhoods – no fault of our own as it happens, but we take a very responsible attitude towards the data on ukcrimestats. I’ve written up a full explanation here on our forum http://ukcrimestats.com/forum/topic/policeuk-changes-order-of-crimes-in-neighbourhood-files-for-october-2012-data?replies=1#post-363 – […]
and as you would expect with temperatures dropping and nights getting longer, we have seen a fall across England and Wales on aggregate of around 10% from August to September.
This morning I was invited onto Dave Monk’s Programme BBC Radio Essex at 10.10 a.m. to talk briefly about UKCrimeStats and crime in Essex compared to the rest of the country. I explained where we got the data from, what the ASB categories were, talked generally about crime data and put Essex in a national […]
We have also introduced a new feature for our members – it is now possible to drill down and ask within a selected Police Force or municipality, which neighbourhood hood or subdivision had the biggest, least, total or increase or decrease in this that or the other type of crime between time point A and […]
Here goes; There seems to be a sizeable difference of opinion between what the general public think the Police can achieve and what the Police think the general public actually want. Elected PCCs should go some way to closing that gap. But this new system will take time to bed down. As political wags will […]
Following on from a suggestion by one of our members and thanks to our dedicated team of programmers, we have recently invested in making sure that all wards – the smallest electoral division – are matched to the relevant County Council, London Borough, Metropolitan Council etc. This was actually harder to do that it sounds […]