Here’s the crime briefing for burglary and street crime reported in Wandsworth between 19 and 27 February, 2009.

The map is hosted by Google, and occasionally will not load, or will not load the flags, especially if you are on a slow connection. If it does not display correctly, try refreshing the page or following the link directly under the map. As usual there are some health warnings following the map.

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1. Yellow flags represent burglaries and red flags represent street crime reported between 19 and 27 February, 2009.
2. The briefing only contains details of burglaries and robberies. Other crimes are not included.
3. You can see more detail by following the link to the Google website.
4. The flags are not placed precisely (it would be irresponsible to advertise victims of burglary) but instead are spaced roughly equally on the roads they took place. The idea is to give a visual representation of the spread and range of crime in Wandsworth, rather than pinpointing crime locations.
5. While I try to ensure the data is accurate it is reliant on the information I receive, and I’m only human, so it may be mistakes have crept in. Please let me know if you think you’ve spotted one.

Here’s the crime briefing for burglary and street crime reported in Wandsworth between 12 and 19 February, 2009.

The map is hosted by Google, and occasionally will not load, or will not load the flags, especially if you are on a slow connection. If it does not display correctly, try refreshing the page or following the link directly under the map. As usual there are some health warnings following the map.

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1. Yellow flags represent burglaries and red flags represent street crime reported between 12 and 19 February, 2009.
2. The briefing only contains details of burglaries and robberies. Other crimes are not included.
3. You can see more detail by following the link to the Google website.
4. The flags are not placed precisely (it would be irresponsible to advertise victims of burglary) but instead are spaced roughly equally on the roads they took place. The idea is to give a visual representation of the spread and range of crime in Wandsworth, rather than pinpointing crime locations.
5. While I try to ensure the data is accurate it is reliant on the information I receive, and I’m only human, so it may be mistakes have crept in. Please let me know if you think you’ve spotted one.

Here’s the crime briefing for burglary and street crime reported in Wandsworth between 5 and 12 February, 2009.

The map is hosted by Google, and occasionally will not load, or will not load the flags, especially if you are on a slow connection. If it does not display correctly, try refreshing the page or following the link directly under the map. As usual there are some health warnings following the map.

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1. Yellow flags represent burglaries and red flags represent street crime reported between 5 and 12 February, 2009.
2. The briefing only contains details of burglaries and robberies. Other crimes are not included.
3. You can see more detail by following the link to the Google website.
4. The flags are not placed precisely (it would be irresponsible to advertise victims of burglary) but instead are spaced roughly equally on the roads they took place. The idea is to give a visual representation of the spread and range of crime in Wandsworth, rather than pinpointing crime locations.
5. While I try to ensure the data is accurate it is reliant on the information I receive, and I’m only human, so it may be mistakes have crept in. Please let me know if you think you’ve spotted one.

Below is the map of crime reported to the police between 30 January and 5 February.

Thank-you to everyone who provided feedback on the mapping after my request last time, and to repeat my request, if you have any thoughts on how the mapping should or can be developed please drop me a line at cllr@jamescousins.com.

The map is hosted by Google, and occasionally will not load, or will not load the flags, especially if you are on a slow connection. If it does not display correctly, try refreshing the page or following the link directly under the map. As usual there are some health warnings following the map.

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1. Yellow flags represent burglaries and red flags represent street crime reported between 30 January and 5 February.
2. The briefing only contains details of burglaries and robberies. Other crimes are not included.
3. You can see more detail by following the link to the Google website.
4. The flags are not placed precisely (it would be irresponsible to advertise victims of burglary) but instead are spaced roughly equally on the roads they took place. The idea is to give a visual representation of the spread and range of crime in Wandsworth, rather than pinpointing crime locations.
5. While I try to ensure the data is accurate it is reliant on the information I receive, and I’m only human, so it may be mistakes have crept in. Please let me know if you think you’ve spotted one.

Finally, full blown crime mapping.

I’m publishing the whole of Wandsworth as one post. There are a few reasons for this which all revolve around the administrative boundaries the police and council use. Basically they have different definitions of Battersea, Putney and Tooting (the police put Balham in Tooting and Fairfield in Putney, the council have them both in Battersea). In real life, most people do not think about those boundaries, and criminals certainly don’t – hence a single Wandsworth map.

The map is hosted by Google, and occasionally will not load, or will not load the flags, especially if you are on a slow connection. If it does not display correctly, try refreshing the page or following the link directly under the map. As usual there are some health warnings following the map.

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1. Yellow flags represent burglaries and red flags represent street crime reported between 16 and 30 December, 2008.
2. The briefing only contains details of burglaries and robberies. Other crimes are not included.
3. You can see more detail by following the link to the Google website.
4. The flags are not placed precisely (it would be irresponsible to advertise victims of burglary) but instead are spaced roughly equally on the roads they took place. The idea is to give a visual representation of the spread and range of crime in Putney, rather than pinpointing crime locations.
5. While I try to ensure the data is accurate it is reliant on the information I receive, and I’m only human, so it may be mistakes have crept in. Please let me know if you think you’ve spotted one.

After a lengthy absence crime mapping will be returning to this website over the next couple of days, and then on a weekly basis.

Mapping was halted, temporarily while the police and council improved the security of the transmission of data between each other.  As is ever the case, this introduced new problems and resulted in only part of the data being transmitted.  These have now been dealt with and the data from the police is now coming securely and intact, so mapping can resume.

Many of the issues that needed addressing in the council and police’s communication have been resolved, but a few kinks still need ironing out before the crime briefings can resume.

In the meantime, you can view the Met’s crime mapping – but to save you time the latest figures for Wandsworth on there are November 2008.  Crime for the borough is ‘average’.  Crime for each of the 20 wards is ‘average’.  And if you zoom into what the Met call sub-wards, you’ll find that for all but five crime is ‘average’ – the five that are not average are basically in town centres around transport hubs: Two sub-wards Clapham Junction and one each in Balham, Putney and Tooting.  They are all above average.

I briefly cover why I think the Met’s crime mapping is far from ideal as part of my first crime mapping post.

There is going to be another gap until I can start publishing crime maps again.

The crime briefings that are used to produce the maps are created from data given to the council’s Community Safety Division by the police.  The Community Safety Division ‘sanitises’ the data to ensure that personal information does not get into the public domain.  It is important that victims are not identified in them.

Both the council and the police take the security of the data very seriously, and while there has not been a problem with the process they’ve decided to halt until a secure communication channel can be set-up.  Work is in progress on this, and will be completed within the next week or two.

In the meantime you can have a look at the Met’s crime maps.  I think these are still far from perfect (you can read why in a previous post) and it’s highly likely all you’ll discover is that crime is ‘average’ – but they are better than nothing.

My attempt at crime mapping Tooting (which includes Earlsfield and Furzedown) is below. It is worth mentioning that this contains two weeks worth of data, so there is more than usual.
The map is hosted by Google, and occasionally will not load, or will not load the flags. If it does not display correctly, try refreshing the page or following the link directly under the map.

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1. Yellow flags represent burglaries and red flags represent street crime reported between 16 and 30 December, 2008.
2. The briefing only contains details of burglaries and robberies. Other crimes are not included.
3. You can see more detail by following the link to the Google website.
4. The flags are not placed precisely (it would be irresponsible to advertise victims of burglary) but instead are spaced roughly equally on the roads they took place. The idea is to give a visual representation of the spread and range of crime in Tooting, rather than pinpointing crime locations.
5. This map is only for the Tooting parliamentary consitutuency – which is different to the police’s Putney sector.
6. While I try to ensure the data is accurate it is reliant on the information I receive, and I’m only human, so it may be mistakes have crept in. Please let me know if you think you’ve spotted one.