Tom Watson , William Perrin and the Power of Information taskforce shows off some mock ups for crime mapping by neighbourhood and the whole social media story makes it onto the Telegraph’s front page with a couple of subsidiary articles – including one mentioning West Midlands Police mapping site. Practical and political! Crime mapping has been useful tool in the US for a few years now, some of it inspired by tracking gun crime and is seeing growing use in the UK.
Crime Mapping from the British Government based on a West Midlands example
Written on July 28th, 2008 by Nick Booth
Filled under: Citizen Journalism Government Journalism Leadership Local Government Third Sector
Tags: Birmingham UK, Chamberlain Forum, Journalist, net2uk, netsquareduk, New Media, nptech, Podminions