Crime?

Sine Nomine has just released a program to fetch crime statistics to apply to a map (see announcements).
Since I’m using Android, I googled to see if there was a website version of this data (there is).

Ash/Ash Vale/Ash Wharf (where I lived in the UK before coming to France):
21 violent/sexual crimes; 18 anti-social; 14 criminal damage/arson; 8 public order.

Yateley (where I grew up):
39, 8, 8, and 7.

Aldershot (the town that named this forum):
70, 26, 21, and 19.

I spent a year in Bridgwater and it seemed like an okay place. Clearly it’s gone downhill as…
93, 46, 15, 14. 🥺

To put this into context, Birmingham:
485 (violence/sexual), 165 (shoplifting), 163 (other theft), 123 (theft from the person).

These figures are for May 2023. Yikes.

Despite the site being “Police.UK”, there’s no information for Glasgow… 😂

Are those absolute values, or per capita?

Are those absolute values, or per capita?

If everyone in Ash Vale is committing 61 crimes per month, the place has really gone downhill :-)

(I think you probably meant “per 1,000 population” or “per 10,000 population”)

If everyone in Ash Vale is committing 61 crimes per month, the place has really gone downhill :-)

There are locations where it’s tempting to believe that it is per capita.

I worked with a guy some years ago who recommended erecting an electrified razor wire fence round Wood End (no gates, no deliveries), and dealing with the ones that survived for more than 6 months

Despite the site being “Police.UK”, there’s no information for Glasgow…

That’s probably because Police.England&Wales haven’t yet realised that they’re not really Police.UK.

Symptomatic of a wider malaise, I’m afraid.

With PolicData around Edingburgh Train Station there was 22 crunes recorded last month so Police Scotland data is there,