Tag Archives: gun crime
Weekly wrap-up, 18 September
St John’s Hill Festival I’m cheating a bit with this week’s photo, since it’s not mine, but was taken by Emma Jane Clark at last Sunday’s St John’s Hill Festival. I’ve used it without permission but hope she doesn’t mind because I really like it. And congratulations to everyone involved in putting the festival on. [...]
Shootings, crime and fear of crime in Wandsworth
One of my mantras since taking on the Community Safety portfolio has been that Wandsworth has the lowest rate of crime in inner London. Given the events of the past week it probably sounds pretty hollow. But I’m going to continue repeating it. However, you cannot get away from the fact that Wandsworth has witnessed [...]
London shootings heat map
I’m not usually a fan of heat, or intensity, mapping because people tend to view the hot-spots as in absolute, rather than relative, terms. However, I think the map below is worth posting. It has been produced by Colin Drane who runs SpotCrime.com and is a heat map compiled from the last 100 shooting related [...]
