New Website Launched To Allow Victims Of Street Crime To Map Where In London They Were Robbed | Technology | Sky News

A new website has been launched allowing victims of street crime to report and map where in London they were robbed or assaulted.

Streetviolence.org provides a Google map of the capital on which users can pinpoint where they were targeted and also describe the incident.

The charity Witness Confident, which is behind the initiative, hopes it will help warn people about local crime hotspots, encourage witnesses to come forward, allow victims to thank Good Samaritans and let users track arrests and prosecutions of law-breakers.

Scotland Yard has refused to endorse the site and has warned that using a website to report crimes could delay investigations.

But Witness Confident director Guy Dehn said the new site “cuts the initial hassle and frustration that puts many victims off reporting the crime to begin with”.

Scotland Yard said it had worked with the charity for over a year after expressing interest in some of its early plans.

But officials reached a decision not to support the launch earlier this month.

via New Website Launched To Allow Victims Of Street Crime To Map Where In London They Were Robbed | Technology | Sky News.

Strange Random Crime Quote:

“Obviously crime pays, or there’d be no crime.” – G. Gordon Liddy (American Politician, b.1930)

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A walk with Sherlock Holmes

From Westminster Tube (Underground) station, along the bank of the Thames, via Downing Street, Trafalgar Square and Scotland Yard (of course) to the Sherlock Holmes pub in Northumberland Street, follow the world’s favourite detective and hear clips from the new movie coming this Christmas.

You can find everything you need on this page.

If you’re in London or going there, you can download a zip (compressed) file with the full audiowalk in mp3 format, ready to copy to your portable player. You can also find a map in pdf to make it easier to get around.

Most of us, though, will no doubt prefer the 4-part slide-show option, allowing you to watch and listen to the walk at the same time, without getting tired or cold! The whole tour takes about 1 hour and you could also win a Sony Handycam if you find the five special numbers hidden in the tour!

If you’re the kind of person who likes a real mystery, try the online game 221B. You can play as Holmes or Watson, with or without a partner, but you will need an account with Facebook to take part.

Image via Wikipedia

Finally, some useful links:

The Sherlock Holmes Pub

The Sherlock Holmes Museum

Famous quotes from the Sherlock Holmes stories

Strange Random Language Fact:
The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” is a pangram, which is a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet.