Posts tagged crime
Gunmen Storm Mexican Newsroom
On Sunday, unidentified gunmen stormed the newsroom of El Buen Tono, a month-old startup based in Veracruz that reports on politics and organized crime. They destroyed computers and other equipment, and then set the building on fire.
No injuries were reported but the Committee to Protect Journalists writes that attacks such as these are becoming more common.
Via the CPJ:
Vanguardia, the oldest and largest newspaper in the city of Saltillo, was the target of a hand grenade attack in May. In February, gunmen attacked the facilities of two media companies in the city of Torreón, destroyed equipment, and killed a TV engineer. Last year, more than a dozen news facilities were attacked with either guns or explosives. These acts of violence are seen as an easy way for criminal gangs to pressure the press to not report on them, especially in areas where drug traffickers battle for territorial control, CPJ research shows.
When Does Crime Happen
Via Datavisualization.ch:
Joe Golike and Sha Hwang of Trulia take a deeper look at when crime typically happens throughout the day in 25 big cities across the United States. The result, When does crime happen? is a set of interactive stacked area charts that allow for detailed comparison between different types of crimes and high-level comparison between different cities. On hover, a tooltip reveals more detailed information and the percentage of reported crimes per type and hour. I think the small multiples work pretty fine for comparison over cities and the charts show the data in a readable and elegant way. The visualization is built in HTML5 using Protovis and the underlying data comes from SpotCrime. Read more about their findings on the Trulia Insights blog.
Trulia Blog: When Does Crime Happen?
Via the Guardian:
The underground world of computer hackers has been so thoroughly infiltrated in the US by the FBI and secret service that it is now riddled with paranoia and mistrust, with an estimated one in four hackers secretly informing on their peers, a Guardian investigation has established.
Cyber policing units have had such success in forcing online criminals to co-operate with their investigations through the threat of long prison sentences that they have managed to create an army of informants deep inside the hacking community.
Or is it law enforcement psyops to freak hackers out?
Partners in Crime
The real estate search engine Trulia teamed up with CrimeReports.com, EveryBlock.com and SpotCrime.com to create a crime map of major metropolitan areas in the United States.
Currently in beta, the heat maps show the type and frequency of crimes by neighborhood, with data sets for cities such as Los Angeles, Tampa, Dallas and Philadelphia among others currently in the system.
Above, a detail from Chicago.
