UK Police Launch a Interactive Crime Map

PirateShampoo

This would be so cool if Ireland did a similar project, but then again it would probably come in millions over budget and 2 years late.

Anyway...

"The UK have launched an interactive crime map that allows members of the public to compare offending rates in neighbourhoods across England and Wales has been launched online."

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20091020/tuk-online-maps-let-public-compare-crime-45dbed5.html

And heres the map... http://maps.police.uk/

Its pretty cool, turns out im from a average crime area.

mikom

Yeah, after millions pumped into the Irish one all we'd probably get was.............. "We are sorry but we don't have crime at this zoom level for this region".

Mc Love

Wont this be used by theives and the like?

biko

Yeah, as in: "there's not enough crime over there, let's go rob them"

LordSutch

England & Wales only?

r3nu4l

Camelot wrote: »

England & Wales only?

Scottish devolution FTW!

Dyr

Weird I was gonna post this as a suggestion before...we get see on google maps or something, just what crimes are reported in an area and where they happened. But more importantly, when someone is convicted of a crime, their nam,e mugshot and address (or street name) is also tagged on the scene of the crime and at their home address. Lets get some visibilty on these fekkers..

TheZohanS

Bambi wrote: »

But more importantly, when someone is convicted of a crime, their nam,e mugshot and address (or street name) is also tagged on the scene of the crime and at their home address. Lets get some visibilty on these fekkers..

It's a good idea but the information would also be available to rival gangs of criminals, can you imagine the amount of tit-for-tat attacks? I think it would lead to an increase in crime.

Dyr

TheZohan wrote: »

It's a good idea but the information would also be available to rival gangs of criminals, can you imagine the amount of tit-for-tat attacks? I think it would lead to an increase in crime.

I would suggest that this information is already available though court records, this would just give the public proper visibility on it. and if its gang related the scummers already know. Same with crime figures, let joe soap see how the garda and judicial system are doing in their neighborhood

Plus imagine if you have multiple convictions for drink driving, battering the better half or the like. The neighbours/job/friends will now that you're a toe rag..might make people think twice