As some of you may know, www.police.uk now has *outcome* data as well as crime data for the UK. The new feature was announced this morning.
There is - surprisingly - no easy way to link up crimes and outcomes. There is no unique identifier in the system that would allow the reliable tracking of a report of a crime to an outcome such as a conviction, caution or decision to take no further action. This has meant that some heuristics have had to be applied to link up as many reported crimes and outcomes as possible - the data is not therefore perfect. (If this website has given us anything useful it is that there is a hopeless failure in criminal justice here - many victims of crime would like to feel that there was a way to find out, at least in principle, what had happened). There is an API which I've been promised information about but which I have not yet seen. -- Francis Davey _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
