The new police crime map (police.uk) is the third version to hit the internet since January 2009. Earlier attempts didn’t particularly excite the interest of the public. This time the site buckled under the pressure of 18 million hits an hour. So what’s different? Unlike previous incarnations (see the Met’s borough and ward crime map …
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The London Map Craze
Londoners have always liked maps, perhaps because they use them every day to find their way around this massive city. The most famous map is also a work of art – Harry Beck’s 1931 design for the underground – and almost every household has a battered old A-Z somewhere. But over the last year there has been …
World of Murder Maps
Who created the first ‘murder map’? What did it show, and where?
Unsolved Murders in London: 2010
These ten cases of homicide (murder and manslaughter) in London in 2010 remain unsolved. Can you help? Call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111. Sukhwinder Singh, a 31-year-old builder, was stabbed in the heart after trying to stop robbers stealing a woman’s handbag. On 8 January 2010 he chased two muggers who attacked a 28 year-old …
How to Name a Serial Killer
Every report of the case of serial killer Stephen Griffiths referred to him as the ‘Crossbow Cannibal’. But where did this name come from? Griffiths gave this name when making his first court appearance before Magistrates in May 2010. He didn’t come up with it himself – because it had already featured in a headline in the Sun …