An Online Crime Map of England and Wales

Posted by Alex in Blog & Internet, Crime & Law on July 31, 2008 at 1:49 pm


MyNeighbourhood is a Google Map-styled website that identify assaults, muggings, and burglaries in towns and villages in England and Wales.

The UK Home Office said that the website will give citizens the details of every crime in every quarters, while some are concerned that neighborhoods would be stigmatized and victims’ rights to privacy would be breached:

In West Yorkshire, one of the leading forces in the scheme, categories include anti-social behaviour and "youth nuisance" - such as street drinking, skateboarding, shouting & swearing, letting off fireworks, climbing on buildings, false 999 calls, graffiti and dropping litter.

Offences are identified using dots on maps.

In the West Midlands, householders can enter their postcodes and zoom into the map to a street level, where the different crime types would be represented in coloured zones, showing levels of monthly crime and how much they have increased in the past 12 months.

Links: MyNeighborhood website | Telegraph Article - Thanks daveroy!




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8 comments to "An Online Crime Map of England and Wales"

  1. Skipweasel
    July 31st, 2008 at 3:32 pm

    Not in my bit of the Wet Mudlands you can’t. At least, it doesn’t like my Telford postcode. In fact, it doesn’t like Telford at all!

  2. bean
    July 31st, 2008 at 3:43 pm

    That reminds me of a website I stumbled across a few years ago. It tracked, day by day, the territory in Los Angeles controlled by the Crips and Bloods.

  3. Ariane
    August 1st, 2008 at 3:16 am

    I just did my bit of the west midlands and now am scared to go home….672 offences for the past few months. The population of my neighbourhood is only 12000. Yikes.

  4. inna
    August 1st, 2008 at 9:38 am

    so if you were a burglar, you’d look at this to see which neighborhoods still had all the good stuff. and proceed to contribute colored dots to the map.

  5. LH
    August 1st, 2008 at 2:17 pm

    Inna, Google is targeting burglars now. One more step to conquer the world.

  6. Matt
    August 1st, 2008 at 5:35 pm

    Doesn’t like my old London postcode either. That must mean there’s no crime in Tooting.

  7. Dixon
    August 2nd, 2008 at 8:13 am

    Matt, the website only covers the Midlands, perhaps it’ll widen to include all the country in the future.

  8. Skipweasel
    August 2nd, 2008 at 2:00 pm

    I used to live in Tooting (Byton Road, off Amen Corner) and the only crime I ever saw was the landlord’s son smashing the gasmeter.


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