Crime Mapping comes to London
Much fanfare today all over the press about how Scotland Yard is offering people the chance to study a map to identify crimes in specific neighbourhoods. The Evening Standard reports that the new site offers:
...a set of interactive maps, showing numbers and rates of crime and comparisons with the London average. It allows visitors to report offences and contains links to other sites including Safer Neighbourhoods Team pages.
The crimes recorded involve cars, burglary and robbery but further categories including anti-social behaviour will be added.
Offering all this was part of Boris Johnson's electoral manifesto. He is quoted as saying:
Crime mapping puts information into the hands of every London citizen about the levels of crimes as well as contact details of their local police officers. This is a major step forward in enabling Londoners to really be able to assess the work of their local police in tackling the crimes that affect their neighbourhood.
The site is at: maps.met.police.uk
I couldn't get the map to work for me all day, but one reader tells me it works fine for him.
This is one import from the USA which I thoroughly approve of.
HelloAmericans
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Reader Comments (1)
Works fine for me. I looked up east end, west end, drilled down to borough level and neighbourhood levels - e.g around south ken tube - zero crime reported in july.
Crime is burglary & car theft - dunno about crime against people, muggings/assault etc - probably that comes later. And anything like this was bound to crash on the first day as ten thousand journalists and ex-pats try it out.