Crime statistics on the map

Question

Google Maps

I decided to move from a dusty noisy city to a clean and quiet suburb. I found a place where yota catches, and the price is acceptable. I told my relatives, and then suddenly my grandmother declares, “Gypsies steal there.”

Need to check. I think the statistics in our time are all in the public. But it wasn't there. There is no information on the crime rate of microdistricts. All I could find was statistics on regions crimestat.ru/regions_chart_total
I tried to find services where people noted information about crimes in their regions, but they didn't either.

In a couple of days I sketched this: www.crimearea.com
If everyone takes a couple of minutes of their time and marks on the map information about cases of robberies / beatings / murders they know, then you get a pretty useful tool for everyone who decides to change their place of residence.

Question. Which hub to stay in? For "I'm PR" karma is not enough.

Answer 1

I think the statistics will be skewed. It turns out, for example, that areas where the Internet is better are more criminogenic than those where people don’t even have computers: o)
All the same, figures from official bodies would be more reliable.

Answer 2

There are American projects SpotCrime and CrimeReports , they collect information from the media and open sources from the police and other services. We don’t have similar tools (and the ones we have are not very accurate).
Perhaps it would be worth creating a mobile application for this project. Use GPS / GLONASS to catch the coordinates, call the police and ambulance via the Internet or via SMS, and at the same time place a new point on the map.

Answer 3

In my opinion, the service is useful, but there are few options, a robbery is when there is a threat to life, a much more common case is theft.

Answer 4

Options are tricky. I don't know exactly how to do it in order to be both simple and informative...
Robbery is expressed in the theft of property committed without violence against a person or with violence that is not dangerous to life and health.
But robbery is already a threat to life.
If you post this and that, then it seems to me that people will get confused.
ps
This is a reply to the first comment.

Answer 5

Such statistics mean nothing. Of course, more crimes will be added to the map where the standard of living is higher, more Internet and more people - that is, in Moscow / St. Petersburg. In Uryupinsk, where they kill and don't ask for names, it will be clean and beautiful. And here in St. Petersburg, please: Kupchino, Rzhevka - not a single crime; center - beating, robbery, murder. The beauty!
Crime statistics must be parsed from the websites of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (if it is in the public domain, of course).
Oops, sloupok, already written above. Habr, update the answers as in the comments, then I will update them.

Answer 6

Here is another example (Yoshkar-Ola). Was very happy when I found it. True, it seems that they stopped updating ...

Answer 7

It's a good thing, but it won't work like this. People simply will not add data - they will play a little and stop.
For the project to live, you need to automatically parse many different sources and update the database. If this is done, I think that karma will be enough to be placed in any hub.

Answer 8

> If everyone spends a couple of minutes of time and marks on the map information about cases of robberies / beatings / murders known to him, then you get a pretty useful tool for everyone who decides to change their place of residence.
Let's count those who are interested in this. How many people are going to move? The number of visitors to your site will be VERY small and you will not be able to collect the required statistics by manually filling it.
Now let's say that your project has become mega-popular. You will either be sued for libel (as the forum owner who criticized the built house is being judged now), or bots will be hired to add nonsense to your system.
Bottom line: you won't succeed. You may not believe, but not all information can be collected in such a backward country as our Ukraine.

Answer 9

Massively motivating people to crowdsource will be difficult in such a project, if at all possible. However, it is quite possible to parse crime reports - as a rule, streets, often with house numbers, appear in the news, although each region will have to work with its own source and a bunch of settings.
If the project takes off, I foresee a lot of attempts to close it)

Answer 10

offtop
It would be interesting to impose statistics on road accidents on a map. I wonder if Yandex.Maps store logs by marks?
Or the most "talkative" areas? :)