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Aug. 15th, 2008
Crime and Alcohol
Aug. 15th, 2008 03:27 pmThe Metropolitan Police have released the beta of their crime-mapping website, which lets you look at the overall crime stats for an area:
http://maps.met.police.uk/
Searching for both my home and office postcodes reveals 'very high' crime-rate areas starting just to the south of each (like, metres away). A moment's thought returns the interesting fact that 'just to the south' is where the vast majority of the pubs and bars in each area are located. I would just love to see a mash-up of this data and 'places that serve alchohol to the public' density data. And then I'd like to see the government take notice of the correlation and ban alcohol. Maybe they could legalise marijuana and MDMA instead*?
Hey, it's for the good of the neighbourhood! Won't somebody think of the children?? :-p
* I don't notice people who use those getting into too many fights. Sweaty hugs maybe, but not fights.
http://maps.met.police.uk/
Searching for both my home and office postcodes reveals 'very high' crime-rate areas starting just to the south of each (like, metres away). A moment's thought returns the interesting fact that 'just to the south' is where the vast majority of the pubs and bars in each area are located. I would just love to see a mash-up of this data and 'places that serve alchohol to the public' density data. And then I'd like to see the government take notice of the correlation and ban alcohol. Maybe they could legalise marijuana and MDMA instead*?
Hey, it's for the good of the neighbourhood! Won't somebody think of the children?? :-p
* I don't notice people who use those getting into too many fights. Sweaty hugs maybe, but not fights.