Just came across this great news story about CrimeReports from Fox 10 in Pensacola, Florida. Near the end a man who runs a community center comments that a map like our could harm people who live in high-crime areas. What are your thoughts?
I saw this video yesterday and I thought it would be fun to share it here. It’s a little animation about how police work will be in the future. Amazingly, a lot of this technology already exists, but hasn’t yet matriculated into the law enforcement system. I also think this is a pretty accurate picture of what policing might be like in 20 years or so (well, minus the jet packs and areal bikes).
The Roswell, GA, Police Department recently partnered with CrimeReports. Check out the video below.
UK crime mapping view of London
The UK Home Office, the central policing hub for the UK, released a countrywide online crime mapping system last year. The application was so popular that on the day that it went live to the public, it shut down because there was so much online traffic. It was soon up again soon, but there was a very public debate about the quality of the maps, their lack of detail, and the public’s concern that their home prices would be adversely affected by publically identifying high-crime areas.
The debate had died down a bit until recently when Charles Arthur write an article for the Guardian titled, “UK police crime maps gets an API—but how useful is it really?” Although Arthur agrees that releasing police data to the public is a good idea in concept, he says that,
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