Links tagged with “crime”
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A Teen’s Fatal Plunge Into the London Underworld | The New Yorker
Good, sad, alarming read about an unsolved probably-not-suicide.
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The Wildest Insurance Fraud Scheme Texas Has Ever Seen – Texas Monthly
This was a good read. (via Things Magazine)
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United States of America v Ross William Ulbricht (PDF)
This is the criminal complaint against “Dread Pirate Roberts” of Silk Road, and is well worth a scan. Quite readable, and it’s interesting to see how they worked out who he was from a few online slip-ups.
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RSS commission new research into public perceptions of statistics | RSSeNews
The British public thinks it lives in Daily Mail fantasy horror world. (via @wonderlandblog)
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Amanda Knox: What’s in a face? | World news | The Guardian
Fascinating article about how quickly, and wrongly, we judge others. “The model we seem to work with is something like this: I am infinitely subtle, complex and never quite what I seem; you are predictable and straightforward, an open book.”
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Charm Offensive: Cultivating Civility in 21st Century Britain (Oct 2011) | The Young Foundation
The Young Foundation’s report, an interesting read. Free PDF.
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Britain’s “broken society”: Through a glass darkly | The Economist
Good article on how many things that you’d think would define “broken Britain” have been improving. Britain’s better.
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Wired Scenarios: - Global Neighborhood Watch Neal Stephenson
For blech, Neal Stephenson in 1995, imagining people watching CCTV cameras over the internet, like the new ‘Internet Eyes’ scheme starting in Britain.
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Oakland crime maps XI: how close, and how bad? (tecznotes)
Thought process on making heat maps out of the Oakland Crimespotting data. (via Simon Willison)