UKCrimeStats now updated to July 2012
So a good moment to join. Membership starting at GBP 9.99 a month – for a full list of benefits see here.
Update – London Assembly + London Assembly Constituencies “Other” crime bug now fixed
Ok, we got this done quicker than I hoped for. Boris Johnson and his brethren will be pleased to here that we now have all crime figure correctly displayed for the London Assembly area as a whole and the 14 London Assembly Constituencies – like this one – Croydon and Sutton. Please note, these figures […]
UKCrimeStats updated to June 2012 – Mea Culpa, News and Time to Join
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 […]
Crime Data – the case for independent audit by lots of 3rd parties
An excellent piece here – Fudge factor: Cooking the books on crime stats – on how and why in the USA, many have come to believe that the biggest problem facing law enforcement today is altered crime stats. Many of us in the UK have come to admire the success of the decentralised and democratic […]
Reoffending and crime
Disturbing article in the Independent today explaining that the number of hardened criminals reoffending is at a record high while the number of first-time offenders has dropped. At the end of the month – we learnt today – Police.uk will be releasing the data on justice outcomes which we will take a look at and […]
UKCrimeStats now updated for March 2012 – great weather, higher crime
We don’t hang around on UKCrimeStats – police.uk finally released the data on the 2nd May and we have updated our website now. There were 27,000 new locations – of which more later. The main point is the clear seasonal impact of good weather for March 2012 – lots of sunshine, less rain and hotter […]
My memo to the Crime and Justice Transparency Sector Panel
Last March 13th, I gave a presentation to the above panel about the issues we were experiencing with crime data provision – so for your interest here it is. I’m still waiting to see the minutes of that meeting which are still not posted up on the data.gov.uk website – well nobody said government was […]
UKCrimeStats February 2012 update coming through this Thursday/Good Friday
Tell Boris Johnson – London Borough Crime Totals are already on UKCrimeStats
They say that imitation is the greatest form of flattery. So I was mildly amused today to pick up the Evening Standard to find that Boris Johnson’s crime manifesto today pledged to do something we already offer for free ! According to the Evening Standard in the Crime Fighting part of Boris Johnson’s overall plan, […]
Our two entrants for #opendata #geovationchallenge
Scaling-up crowdsourced community participation mashed up with open data can deliver some exciting solutions. So we were delighted to learn by chance about the geovation challenge last week which is supported by the Ordnance Survey as we can leverage what we have learnt and our capabilities from UKCrimeStats. These are brief summaries of our entrants […]