Currybet.net: The Telegraph’s Conrad Quilty-Harper on why crime maps are rubbish
Friday, 18 March 2011, 00:17
"[Conrad Quilty-Harper]said that problems include that crimes lack unique IDs, the categories of crime are too broad, and as a reporter he wants to know which crimes happened yesterday, so that he can be working on the story today, not what happen…
Daily Mail: Police crime map Home Office website crashed: 2 call centres hotspots
Thursday, 3 February 2011, 17:20
Beware the "default location" fallacy in crime data: "A Sussex Police spokesman said: ‘Sussex Police has been thorough in its recording and these high figures relate to hoax calls – mainly received by mobile phone – which have been…
Adrian Short: police.uk official crime maps — there should be a law against it
Thursday, 3 February 2011, 17:07
"Spatial visualisation and analysis is enormously difficult to get right and even thoughtfully-designed visualisations require a fair bit of understanding to interpret correctly. … The newspapers that have run lists of the most crime-ridden str…
Grey Cardigan: Extract from the November column
Monday, 29 November 2010, 11:55
Grey Cardigan applauds Greater Manchester Police's Twitter incident feed but asks the correct question of chief constable Peter Fahy: "Why not set up a permanent, 24-hour feed of police activity to the Oldham-based Manchester Evening News and its remaining associated weeklies? Then you might not have to stage a publicity stunt the next time the government casts a stern eye over your finances."
The Dan Slee Blog: Open Floodgates: What publishing Whitehall data means for local government
Tuesday, 23 November 2010, 14:58
"What's next? … Historical data will be released … More public agencies will follow … There will be a right to data … Open data will move from spending into crime… "
MurderMap: London Homicide Reported Direct from The Old Bailey
Monday, 13 September 2010, 16:52
"The Murder Map project aims to create the first ever comprehensive picture of homicide in the modern city. On its completion, our online database will contain details of every murder and manslaughter committed in London from the crimes of Jack the Ripper to the present day. It is based on our unique archive of homicide cases – the product of thousands of hours spent by skilled and dedicated crime reporters in the courtrooms of the Old Bailey."
Google Maps Mania: Mapping LA Crime
Thursday, 9 April 2009, 07:40
"This Google Map from the Los Angeles Police Department’s (LAPD) E-policing program shows up-to-date crime statistics for neighborhoods throughout LA."
Belfast Telegraph: Northern Ireland Crime Map
Thursday, 23 October 2008, 20:03
Mapping criminal activity by ward from NISRA Statistics.
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"
