Crime, maps and policing: how data can improve safety
Do police and communities understand crime patterns enough to effectively reduce harm?
Date: 2019-10-02
Time: 10:00 to 12:00
Venue: Conference room, ISS Pretoria, Block C, Brooklyn Court (paid parking available at Brooklyn Mall)
RSVP: Helen Chanda, Phone: +27 12 346 9500, Email: [email protected]
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The latest crime statistics show that 20% of murders in South Africa occurred in less than 3% of police precincts. Within these precincts, violence clusters in small, micro-locations. This presents important opportunities for targeted policing. Advances in evidence-based policing show that targeted interventions can effectively address crime and violence. But this requires access to recent, accurate crime data.
This seminar launches two new reports on crime mapping in South Africa. The first reviews the potential and problems of point-level murder and robbery data for Khayelitsha in Cape Town. The second shows how violence can be mapped even if the necessary police data isn’t available.
Chair: Lizette Lancaster, Manager, Crime Hub, ISS
Speakers:
Maj-Gen Sekhukhune, Crime Registrar, SAPS
Dr Ian Edelstein, Independent Consultant
Dr Andrew Faull, Senior Researcher, ISS
