A murder map of South Africa [interactive]
I've long wanted to experiment with mapping crime in South Africa but this has largely been impossible since the police statistics don't give us much to work with. Crimes are reported at policing district level and at provincial level making it pretty impossible to do anything particularly useful with them.
This week I asked the incredibily helpful Lizette Lancaster, the project manager of the Institute for Security Studies Crime and Justice Hub, if she could assist my Media24 Investigations team with producing a special query on the police statistics which would show various crime categories at a precinct level by population.
I thought it would be interesting to see which were the most dangerous places in South Africa for murder and so on. The idea came to me from the insanely brilliant Crimehub site that the ISS have built which allows you to see crime information at a very local level and which tracks stats going back to 2004. I highly recommend this site for any journalist who is serious about data; it is probably the best implementation of this concept I have seen anywhere on the web.
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