The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

2 responses to “Crime mapping”

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   marksany

   October 20, 2009

   Talking to a neighbour who’s a copper, it seem typical. But much of the violent crime is domestic, drunken friends, drugs or gang related. A small number of people generate most of the violence on each other again and again. The stat you want is violence on someone unknown to the attacker; sadly not listed here and probably not counted at all. As always with data collection, the data you really want is destroyed at the point of collection.

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   Lord T

   October 21, 2009

   Don’t forget the way the collect crimes. If you defend yourself you are down as a stat as well. So two blokes fighting makes two assaults as does two birds slapping each other. Poking a finger in someones chest is an assault as well as simply grabbing their arm.
   ASB on the other hand could be just walking home with a bottleof wine nowadays.
   Notice how the two widest ranging offenses have so much of the crimein your area.

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