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Policing Advance Access published online on July 14, 2009
Policing, doi:10.1093/police/pap015
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Plotting Crimes: Too True to Be Good? The Rationale and Risks behind Crime Mapping in the UK

Fraser Sampson* and Fiona Kinnear**

* Fraser Sampson, Chief Executive of the West Yorkshire Police Authority, Wakefield, UK. E-mail: fs1{at}wypa.pnn.police.uk
** Fiona Kinnear, Research Director at the Authority. E-mail: fk1{at}wypa.pnn.police.uk

Fraser Sampson L.L.B., L.L.M., M.B.A., Solicitor, is Chief Executive of the West Yorkshire Police Authority, and Fiona Kinnear B.Sc. (Hons) is Research Director at the Authority. Working closely with the West Yorkshire Police, the West Yorkshire Police Authority has been leading the way in crime mapping in England and Wales since 2005. Beatcrime, their award-winning website, is unique in using dots-on-maps to show recorded crimes and trends down to street level and to make that information available to the public. While this approach has been recognized by bodies such as the National Policing Improvement Agency, the question of how much detail the public are entitled to expect from their criminal justice agencies and how much those agencies should withhold remains a contentious area in the UK. This article considers some of the competing arguments against the backdrop of increasing demands for public access to civic data.


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