{"id":371,"date":"2012-04-02T16:33:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T16:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/?p=371"},"modified":"2023-06-11T10:05:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T10:05:51","slug":"tell-boris-johnson-london-borough-crime-totals-are-already-on-ukcrimestats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/02\/tell-boris-johnson-london-borough-crime-totals-are-already-on-ukcrimestats\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell Boris Johnson &#8211; London Borough Crime Totals are already on UKCrimeStats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They say that imitation is the greatest form of flattery. \u00a0So I was mildly amused today to pick up the Evening Standard to find that Boris Johnson&#8217;s crime manifesto today pledged to do something we already offer for free !<\/p>\n<p>According to the Evening Standard in the Crime Fighting part of Boris Johnson&#8217;s overall plan, he would &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisislondon.co.uk\/news\/mayor\/boris-johnson-ill-give-residents-say-in-running-police-on-their-streets-7608395.html\">Publish monthly crime figures and police numbers for every borough<\/a>&#8220;. Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/Subdivisions\/\">you can see monthly crime numbers by borough here<\/a>\u00a0and if they do go ahead and publish Borough Force numbers on a monthly basis, we could put that in easily too. Let&#8217;s hope they don&#8217;t do down the road of yet another tax-funded website like police.uk.<\/p>\n<p>Another part of the manifesto that did concern me was the pledge to &#8220;<strong><em>Develop (a) smartphone crime reporting app<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;. Why would they spend taxpayers money developing that when they could release the data and developers could not only compete with each other to do a better job, but do it for free at no cost to the taxpayer?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m all for our politicians taking an open-minded closer look at what technology can do against crime and inefficiency. But I&#8217;d rather not have to keep pointing out that the role of government is to release the data, not develop it and crowd out private sector job creation and tax revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, unless I&#8217;m mistaken, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenlivingstone.com\/police\">Ken Livingstone&#8217;s programme meanwhile appears to be devoid of any technology solution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So on this admittedly very narrow point, I&#8217;m not sure who&#8217;s better or worse !<\/p>\n<div style=\"overflow: auto; position: absolute; height: 0pt; width: 0pt;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/roxporno.com\/category\/sex-hikayeleri\/\" title=\"Sex hikayeleri\">Sex hikayeleri<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aradia.info\/sarisin-pornolari\/\" title=\"Sar\u0131\u015f\u0131n Pornolar\u0131\">Sar\u0131\u015f\u0131n Pornolar\u0131<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pornorina.com\/kanal\/pornhub\/\" title=\"Pornhub Pornolar\">Pornhub Pornolar<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britneysex.com\/category\/yolculukta-seks-hikayeleri\/\" title=\"Yolculukta Seks Hikayeleri\">Yolculukta Seks Hikayeleri<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.halleporno.com\/kategori\/turbanli\/\" title=\"T\u00fcrbanl\u0131 Porno\">T\u00fcrbanl\u0131 Porno<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pornoholly.com\/masaj\/\" title=\"Masaj\">Masaj<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pornolina.com\/kategori\/sert\/\" title=\"Asyal\u0131 Sert Japon Pornolar\u0131 izle\">Asyal\u0131 Sert Japon Pornolar\u0131 izle<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say that imitation is the greatest form of flattery. \u00a0So I was mildly amused today to pick up the Evening Standard to find that Boris Johnson&#8217;s crime manifesto today pledged to do something we already offer for free ! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/02\/tell-boris-johnson-london-borough-crime-totals-are-already-on-ukcrimestats\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apps","category-crime-data-provision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2621,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/2621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukcrimestats.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}