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Topic: Crime Maps
BonnyMiss
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Tue 11/04/08 02:50 AM
Crime maps giving details of offences that have taken place in every street in the country are to be published for the first time in the UK. Residents are to be given access to Google-style internet maps of actual streets identifying assaults, muggings and burglaries in towns and villages across England and Wales, under Home Office plans.

Would you welcome such a scheme in the area where you live and what effects do you think it would have on your community?


 
s1owhand
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Tue 11/04/08 03:24 AM
i welcome it
people need to know
awareness in criminals and residents alike
no tolerance
no hiding from
the truth

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BonnyMiss
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Tue 11/04/08 03:32 AM
Police forces in the UK already compile similar maps of street robbery, youth and knife crime but have never published them for fear that neighbourhoods would be "stigmatised" and that the known hotspots for crime would become "ghettos"
 
s1owhand
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Tue 11/04/08 03:39 AM
maybe once they publish the info, the residents will be more wary and the criminals will know that as well...

crime happens everywhere

i have lived in "crime-prone" areas and i liked to know
what's going on. not to move away but to be informed.

attempting to hide it might only let it fester

 
BonnyMiss
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Tue 11/04/08 03:46 AM
Property experts here are warning that the with the housing market at its lowest ebb for over a decade, publication of such detailed information about local crimes could wipe thousands of pounds off of house prices over night.
 
s1owhand
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Tue 11/04/08 04:06 AM
yes - property value is a big concern
but are the properties worth more if the factual data is hidden

or is that merely some form of fraud?

those buyers who do not know the extent of the problems
locally being taken advantage of by those who do know?

i would argue that everyone should know and then those
who realize that it is only a temporary problem can buy
and develop valuable properties in the area which will
appreciate as the climate in the neighborhood improves.

i've seen this happen...

but i do feel for anyone who sees a decline in their
property value. it is not their fault it is entirely the
doing of the criminals who victimize them. in time, people
do recognize that the temporary presence of crime should
not radically affect property values over the long haul.

Edited by s1owhand on Tue 11/04/08 04:07 AM
 
Haloheldbyhorns
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Tue 11/04/08 08:07 AM
They already have such a system in place for sex offenders Not by the government though but by a concerned citizens group
 
Riding_Dubz
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Tue 11/04/08 08:11 AM
laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh


they been doing it here once a week


for the last 10 years,


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