Crime mapping
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Crime mapping for English and Welsh police forces - CrimeMapper.
A new crime mapping website is available in England & Wales. I used it to check the area around my house in England and the results surprised me. It's a city centre and I knew there was crime but was amazed how much of it violent. Two or three burglaries a month is bad enough, but 50-70 assaults!? Presumably they were fairly serious for the police to be involved.
(click chart to enlarge)
Can any of our police blog colleagues tell us if this is typical?
Don't forget the way the collect crimes. If you defend yourself you are down as a stat as well. So two blokes fighting makes two assaults as does two birds slapping each other. Poking a finger in someones chest is an assault as well as simply grabbing their arm.
ASB on the other hand could be just walking home with a bottleof wine nowadays.
Notice how the two widest ranging offenses have so much of the crimein your area.
Posted by: Lord T | Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 12:29 PM
Talking to a neighbour who's a copper, it seem typical. But much of the violent crime is domestic, drunken friends, drugs or gang related. A small number of people generate most of the violence on each other again and again. The stat you want is violence on someone unknown to the attacker; sadly not listed here and probably not counted at all. As always with data collection, the data you really want is destroyed at the point of collection.
Posted by: marksany | Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 10:17 PM