Just noticing the hype around the goverments publishing of publicly accessible website which features geo specific crime data. The generic nature of the data, the level of abstraction it all kinda make you wonder what its for ? is it really just for people to work out if they should move to an area or not, and how much there house prices might be effected. See here for a good rant about metrics and the important stuff.
More interesting to me is the manner of crime engagement that Dutch police have used, by actually using bait bikes that have tracking sensors in them.
This correlates with an idea I had to compile a list of ten top stolen consumer item. I would aqure these ten items, tag them and allow them to be stolen, the resulting narrative would be recorded using the breadth of social media, communities might be formed around the objects unraveling narratives. This idea is further extended by the thought that there a quite a few desirable objects that have geo spatial facilities built in, i-phones, sat-nav's, computers etc, the fact that the i-phone is the most nickable and desirable phone and those that nick them, as happened to my collegue, might potentially own them seems pertinent.
Now to think to make an app, install it and see what going on with it -
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