Press Gazette: Government considers criminal court results website for England and Wales
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 11:38
"Justice Secretary Jack Straw is looking at plans to provide information of all criminal hearings on one national website which could become a vital source of information for journalists."
BBC News: Magazine; Will crime maps work?
Wednesday, 27 August 2008, 21:05
"The maps will only display offences that are reported to the police, and reported crime figures are notoriously unreliable. According to estimates, at least 60% of crime goes unreported, and some critics think the figure could be much higher. … According to criminologists, areas with the most serious crime problems have the lowest reporting rates."
Metropolitan Police Service: Crime mapping test site
Thursday, 14 August 2008, 15:36
"The purpose of this site is to help show where crime is occurring at a local neighbourhood level. It has been developed by the MPS in conjunction with the Metropolitan Police Authority and the Mayor of London."
Tomski.com: Tom Loosemore’s Blog: Met Police Crime Maps
Thursday, 14 August 2008, 15:35
"It's a pretty decent first effort, in that the data is down to a nicely local level (typically half a dozen streets) and aggregates geographically (so you can see basic crime data for the streets near you, for your ward, for your borough and for London as a whole)."
ThisisLondon: New internet ‘clickable crime maps’ will show families every incident in their neighbourhood
Monday, 28 July 2008, 21:16
"Cabinet Office papers reveal the final plan intends to go even further. It will use images from Google, which show aerial pictures of every street and park in the country"
ThisisLondon: New internet ‘clickable crime maps’ will show families every incident in their neighbourhood
Monday, 28 July 2008, 21:16
"Cabinet Office papers reveal the final plan intends to go even further. It will use images from Google, which show aerial pictures of every street and park in the country"
Guardian: Technology: Interactive crime maps for everyone by Christmas, says Home Office
Monday, 28 July 2008, 20:18
Home office press release: "Every neighbourhood in England and Wales will have access to the latest local crime information through new interactive crime maps, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced today."
Saturday, 19 July 2008, 09:51
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The Metropolitan Police may not be releasing crime data, but that’s not stopping some people from developing UK crime maps.
Sunday, 13 July 2008, 12:45
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"This week, the police department unveiled a computerized mapping program that allows the public to track police calls, from assaults to excessive noise calls, through a digital map posted on the department Web site…"
Friday, 11 July 2008, 20:31
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"The Banjax Crime Map is a map of crime in Northern Ireland. The data for the map comes from the Northern Ireland Neighbourhood Information Service (NINIS)."
Wednesday, 25 June 2008, 20:46
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"It is understood [mayor Boris] Johnson is trying to get round the setback [to his crime mapping plan] by tailoring the scheme to satisfy the [infomration commissoner]".
Thursday, 19 June 2008, 18:48
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"New guidance will mean that there will be more crime mapping: a paper published by the Cabinet Office … notes … that ‘Police forces are due to provide standardised local information on crime, starting from Summer 2008 …’"
Thursday, 19 June 2008, 18:46
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"Ah yes, the fear of knowing too much. Why don’t we just buy houses without ever seeing them? Why do we bother getting them surveyed? If house prices are affected, might it not also push up prices in places that don’t have crime?"
Saturday, 14 June 2008, 11:04
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Chris Vallance talks to the Everyblock team about Boris Johnson’s plan to introduce crime mapping to London.
