Free Our Data: the blog: Crime mappers are doing it for themselves
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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.
Category Archives: police
CapeCodTimes.com: Mapping crime online
"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..."
Online Journalism Blog: Web video privacy complaint upheld by Press Complaints Commission
"[R]eporters are effectively ‘embedded’, with all the ethical and professional considerations that that should entail. The question is, is the pressure to produce web video bringing newspapers too close to the police?"
Free Our Data: Crime mapping coming more widely as government gets on board
"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 ...'"
Free Our Data: Crime mapping for London, Boris? We’ll start the clock now
Boris Johnson vowed to introduce street-level crime mapping in London "on day one". Where's our mashup dataset, Boris?
Burton Mail: Burglars had to wait
"A book and Internet blog written by a former Burton police constable has become a global publishing sensation. ... The Mail revealed Pc Copperfield's true indentity on Monday, and the fact that his pseudonymous home town was, in fact, Burton."
Journalistopia: Journalistopia online crime maps directory
Loads of US papers are now producing crime-plotting map mashups. Here's a list of them.
icSurreyOnline: Baby under a year old is one of 225 missing
Good perspective-providing FOI story from the Surrey Mirror: "More than 220 youngsters have been reported missing in Mole Valley in the last two years - and the youngest was not even a year old."
The Argus: Sussex Hit By Internet Crimewave
"Sussex is in the grip of a high-tech crimewave with dozens of eBay customers being targeted by criminals every month."
Milton Keynes Citizen: Citizen offices raided by police
"The Milton Keynes Citizen newspaper offices have been raided by police executing a search warrant as part of an investigation into leaks to the media."
BBC News: Two cautioned over wi-fi ‘theft’
"Two people have been cautioned for using people's wi-fi broadband internet connections without permission."
Amateur Photographer: Police photo guidelines to go nationwide news
"Guidelines concerning police treatment of photojournalists covering news events are to be extended nationwide"