The apps that map violence – and keep Rio residents out of the crossfire
Rejecting official information channels, Rio’s citizens are navigating their city using crowdsourced data on shootings and robberies as they happen
September 2014
Datablog
The world's most dangerous countries for young people: homicide rates for under 20-year-olds mapped
A fifth of homicide victims globally are children and adolescents under the age of 20, according to Unicef. The three countries with the highest rates in the world are all in Latin America
Week in review podcast: Egypt, football's millions and Sky Atlantic
Week in review podcast: The panel look back on a week of bloodshed in Egypt. Plus, the police crime map; English football's month of economic madness; and the moral quandary over Sky Atlantic
All the crime map shows up is Whitehall's pointless zest for data
Simon Jenkins
Simon Jenkins: Theresa May's crime map joins school league tables in its statistical fatuity. The information geeks need holding to account
Politics Weekly UK
Politics Weekly podcast: Egypt, crime maps and ancient forests
Can the British government offer the people of Egypt anything more than platitudes? Plus: online crime maps; and the plans to sell off ancient forests. With Rafael Behr, Michael White and Martin Woollacott
Crime map own goal
Letter: Maps do not merely comment on what is "out there" or not "out there"; they have a more active role, and in the case of crime maps they will be quickly appropriated by the likes of estate agents in making further claims about the safety of a community
Online crime maps could drive down house prices, warn property analysts
Police crime website welcomed by many in the real estate industry, but some fear it could hit property prices
Politics blog
Crime maps: too much information?
Michael White: I can't help thinking that this new tool – created on the principle that all information is good – will simply accentuate the gap between the information rich and poor
Online crime maps crash under weight of 18 million hits an hour
Home Office admits to technical problems with new crime-mapping website that is designed to 'put power in the hands of the people'
