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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 … Continue reading
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. … Continue reading
Here they are – I have sourced 2009 and 2010 data from table 2 of this pdf – Crime in England and Wales – and added in our own figures (which are from Police.uk) for 2011. YEAR Total Recorded Crime … Continue reading
We now have a database of 7.6 million crimes and ASB incidents spanning the period Dec 2010 to Jan 2012. With a subscription starting at just £9.99 a month you can compare your selected crime types or all of them … Continue reading
Broken Windows is probably the most influential criminological theory of the last few decades co-developed by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling. Wilson passed away a few days ago – read his obituary here – a very able academic, he clearly … Continue reading
Dear UKC followers and subscribers, Normally, we aim to release our update within a week after Police.uk release theirs and often much sooner. So we owe you an apology and an explanation on why it’s later than usual. First of … Continue reading
Today, we launch a major new advance in UKCrimeStats. We’ve come a long way since April last year when I wrote this post – 10 reasons why UKCrimeStats is better than Police.uk and not much has changed since then with the … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
If you didn’t see this short report on Channel 4 news last night, watch it on catchup tv here. It’s good to see that West Midlands Police are experimenting with this and now about to roll it out across Birmingham. … Continue reading