In a follow-up to
Steve Outing's
piece here about
ChicagoCrime.org, I find it worthwhile to mention that the Danish police recently launched a
database with a fairly similar zoom-map integration. The database also lets you research whether a given type of crime is more or less common than one or two years ago, and has export functions for HTML or Microsoft Excel format.
However, the Danish police have chosen to map the various types of crimes not on a street level, but within a one-square-kilometer area. Furthermore, any sexually related crimes are only reported on a municipality level in order to protect the victims.
I know the Chicago version probably gives me more detail. (The RSS feed especially is cool.) But I'm asking myself: Isn't the Danish version a fair trade-off between getting the facts and protecting the victims? Or do I need to know the exact block where every "
sexual relation in family" crime took place? Let me know what you think!
This is a very interesting issue, and I appreciate that...
