Greater Manchester Police’s 103.7-per-1,000 rate gets quoted constantly — but a force covering ten boroughs, from the city centre to quiet suburbs, hides more than it shows. Here’s what the number actually means, and where to look instead.
Westminster looks like London’s most dangerous borough on paper — until you notice the ranking is measured against residents, not the huge daytime population actually there. Here’s what the Met’s own numbers show, and don’t show.
Most safety tools only help once something has already gone wrong. The useful question is what changes in the twenty minutes before that — and what an app can honestly do about it.
Our map is built on the UK police open data feed. Here is exactly what that data contains, how precise it really is, and the things it cannot tell you — including why a pin is never someone’s front door.
Safety apps are usually described in vague language. Here is the concrete version: what happens before you set off, while you are walking, and if something goes wrong.