Just went over to the Post Office to post a few parcels, and this was the newspaper banner outside...
It refers to the Crime mapping website that was revealed earlier in the week, and which crashed due to the amount of traffic that it was getting...
Checked out my postcode, and there were just 3 crimes in December 2010 apparently...
At a previous address near the school where I taught in King's Lynn, there were over 400 crimes...
Good to see the website up and running, as now there can be some interesting work done with students to explore the relationship between the data and the maps, and to be critical about how both are used here to represent something that has a clear geographical relevance...
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