{"id":2120,"date":"2020-01-16T14:27:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T14:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/?p=2120"},"modified":"2020-01-16T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T14:28:00","slug":"constituency-crime-changes-whos-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/16\/constituency-crime-changes-whos-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Constituency Crime % changes – who’s right?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just over a couple of weeks ago, the Sunday Times ran a story with the headline “Burglaries rise by 68% of Boris Johnson’s seat<\/a>“. As we’ve been collating constituency level crime data for almost 9 years, I thought we’d see if our numbers agree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And they didn’t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On that figure alone, from our own data, there were 977 burglaries from Dec 2018-Nov 2019 and 657 from Dec 2017-Nov 2018, giving a 49% increase. So Boris’s seat – Uxbridge and South Ruislip<\/a> – actually came second to Hove<\/a>, not first, in the total percentage increase in burglaries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During our investigations, we discovered what we believe is a bug in the api which we have just reported to data.police.uk – meaning that if you match a shapefile to the api, some crimes, some very far away, not in that shapefile will be matched to it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our methodology has always been to match the raw street level data to the shapefiles ourselves, making such an error not possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can always find out yourself over any time period, how constituencies compare by subscribing to UKCrimeStats.com<\/a> and running reports from the Constituencies page<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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