The government has added more crimes to its online crime maps

Overman, Henry G.

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29/06/2017 SERC: Spatial Economics Research Centre: Crime Mapshttp://spatial-economics.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/crime-maps.html 1/2Newer Post Older PostHomeSubscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)F r i d a y ,  2 8  O c t o b e r  2 0 1 1Posted by Prof Henry G. Overman on Friday, October 28, 2011 Crime MapsThe government has added more crimes to its online crime maps. The discussion on the Today programme centred around the extent to which the maps, together with new police commissioners might skew decisions onhow to use police resources. Back in July, the worry was around whether this would skew incentives to report crimes. The magnitude of both these effects is unknown. One thing that is certain, however, is that reported crimes have a big effect on house prices. To theextent that this is valuing the costs of crimes (at least to residents) then you would think it should have some bearing on the allocation of resources(independent of the mechanism through which this is achieved). Steve Gibbons interesting post from July has more details. Recommend this on GooglePost a CommentNo comments:0  More  Next Blog»29/06/2017 SERC: Spatial Economics Research Centre: Crime Mapshttp://spatial-economics.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/crime-maps.html 2/2Simple theme. Powered by Blogger.

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