Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Crime Point Locations

Question

Does anyone know if any government department or agency in Canada releases point locations of crimes committed as lat/long coordinates?

Answer

From Justice Division:

"We have never collected this type of information and we have no intention of collecting this location of crime data in the future. We only collect data by police department.That is the lowest level of detail we collect crime data for.

The only thing I can think of if a crime is committed in any major city, they may be able to do their own calculation as to what the latitude and longitude of that city where the crime was committed.Then then can get the crimes committed in each city to match the latitude and longitude of that city."

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