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Iain @routineactivity.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Not strictly methods, but I have a shelf close by for geospatial methods combined with software and programming guides

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Iain @routineactivity.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Example, Cleveland UK: scoring high crime harm hexagons, including spatial lags, within districts

Iain @routineactivity.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Example, Brooklyn/NYPD: finding high crime contiguous clusters of street, or individual high crime streets

Iain @routineactivity.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Not something I usually do, but excited to share a first attempt at creating a Python package, hexseg. It assists in streamlining two popular count-based crime analysis methods by creating hexagonal grids or street-segment analyses across geographic study areas. github.com/routineactiv...

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GitHub - routineactivity/hexseg: Spatial functions for analysing crime by hexagons and street segments

Spatial functions for analysing crime by hexagons and street segments - routineactivity/hexseg

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Iain @routineactivity.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Nice. I've been trying to find time to do something similar with geo data

Manne Gerell @mannegerell.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

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New paper led by Mia Puur at Lund Uni out ✅ In the paper we show that combining spatial and temporal patterns is important to understand violent crime. Patterns differ a lot across weekdays vs weekends, mornings vs evenings etc. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Risk: A Risk Terrain Modeling Approach in Stockholm, Sweden - European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research

Decades of criminological research have highlighted the principle that “place matters” when analysing crime dynamics. While acknowledging this, our study emphasises that place matters at specific time...

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Iain @routineactivity.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

London weapon homicide and gang mapping. Interactive leaflet map using open source data. routineactivity.github.io/maps/2025-04...

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London Weapon Homicide and Gang Mapping | @routineactivity

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Iain @routineactivity.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Nice simple way for visualising density as elevation along street networks. routineactivity.github.io/maps/2025-05...

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Visualising Crime Along Routes: Robbery density along London's Oxford Street | @routineactivity

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Iain @routineactivity.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Just caught up watching Game 2 NYK BOS. Woah! Was not expecting Knicks to take a 2-0 lead playing back-to-back at TD Garden.

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Iain @routineactivity.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Using Open Data to Explore Crime in Boston MA - example for how open data, combined with a few open accessible tools — Python, PostgreSQL, and Power BI — can help deliver timely insights from almost real-time data feeds. medium.com/@routineacti...

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Using Open Data to Explore Boston Crime

In this mini-project I used three tools:

Iain @routineactivity.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The first one in that list was the most memorable, whilst 6-7 primed me for a career in public safety.

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Iain @routineactivity.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Evaluating Place-Based Crime Interventions: A Walkthrough of the Home Office Clear Hold Build Impact Evaluation (propensity scores, synthetic controls and diff-in-diff) medium.com/@routineacti...

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Evaluating Place-Based Crime Interventions: A Walkthrough of the Home Office Clear, Hold, Build…

The Home Office Clear, Hold, Build (CHB) initiative is a place-focused intervention that has been happening in England and Wales since…

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Iain @routineactivity.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Ha! Okay, phrased it another way, hypothetically. Is it better to arrest 300 people for {insert crime type} on a 'day of action', or arrest an {achievable number of persons} for that crime type every day for an entire year? I guess an existing paper is Mike Scott popcenter.asu.edu/content/bene...

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The Benefits and Consequences of Police Crackdowns

POP Center Responses The Benefits and Consequences of Police Crackdowns Print Full Guide To print this guide, click on your web browser's "Print" icon, or go to the menubar and select "File..Print" Th...

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Iain @routineactivity.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

#criminologists #ebp #policing looking for papers that consider effect of days/weeks of action (short crackdowns) comparative to instead embedded regular consistent tactics/management over sustained periods of time, to address chronic problems?

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Iain @routineactivity.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Is this any different to the CBO?

Iain @routineactivity.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

GeoDA offers a free GUI for leveraging spatial libraries from Python geodacenter.github.io

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GeoDa on Github

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Iain @routineactivity.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Spatial dependency / Tobler's law? In geography we often use spatial weights and geo specific methods such as spatial lag/error models, geographic weighted regression; to account for varying spatial relationships across a study area.

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Iain @routineactivity.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I think transparency can attract more criticism. UK policing often neglects to provide context or analysis alongside open access. This means sometimes it becomes misrepresented and misused (good can be done also, but tends to gain less traction).

Yes. The Amnesty report demonstrates the extent of transparency required in UK by the level of detail it was able to obtain via freedom of information requests, open data sources, privacy notices, open access policing journals etc

Simple interpretable and explainable methods have often found more favour among leaders in policing because, inevitably, they will be asked to explain and communicate decisions to a range of non-police audiences. Very advanced methods can often receive a great deal of internal scrutiny and testing.

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Unfortunately my comment is based on reading the report, not the Guardian article.

I prefer LinkedIn these days, although I don't feel I can post there too frequently - usually limited to a weekly post or monthly blog, time permitting. I've almost stopped sharing content entirely on X/Twitter.

Matt Ashby @mattashby.com · 20/02/2025

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The head of Amnesty International UK claims in this Guardian article that "The evidence that [predictive policing] keeps us safe just isn’t there". But that's simply not true. Let's look at what the best-available evidence on predictive policing shows … 🧵 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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UK use of predictive policing is racist and should be banned, says Amnesty

Exclusive: rights group says use of algorithms and data reinforces discrimination in UK policing

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