This map - produced from a map and article in this week's Camden New Journal - shows the youth crime hotspots in the borough.It confirms what Labour was saying all along - areas of high need suffered first in the Town Hall's youth funding cuts.
Friday, July 18, 2008
Youth cuts in Camden in areas of highest need
This map - produced from a map and article in this week's Camden New Journal - shows the youth crime hotspots in the borough.It confirms what Labour was saying all along - areas of high need suffered first in the Town Hall's youth funding cuts.
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These hotspots correspond to the locations of Camden's secondary schools and the routes home. That is also why the trouble occurs at 4pm
Good point - basically it's kids walking from school back home (largely to estates - look at the Regent's Park 'handle').
Presumably that also why there's less in the south because there is only one school.
A large part of this area has the highest concentration of Safer Neighbourhoods Team PCSOs and Policemen plus a team of 3 Camden Town Street Wardens, whose remit reaches as far as Chalk Farm. Does the remit of these two teams not include keeping an eye on young people leaving school?
I'm suspicious of your spacial analysis here - there's pockets of high need in the top left - bottom right etc... I think you're only presenting a partial view.
In fact these are just the areas of high population density - have you done proper shifting of the data to data per capita? have you weighted areas of higher concentrations of young people? In short are you sure these figures aren't meaningless?
Yes, at the extreme top left (Cricklewood) and in Kings Cross/Holborn.
Kings Cross is very well served by KCB, the Tonbridge (which I helped rebuild), Fitzrovia and Coram's Fields.
What I was pointing out is excellent projects in the central 'belt' of the borough, were there are many of estates (i.e. high numbers of people in overcrowded flats) has not been served by this council well.
4.27 comment - Gospel Oak, Haverstock and the northern part of Camden Town - where two of the youth clubs are have the highest youth density in the borough.
There is only one youth club serving the entire Regent's Park estate and Highgate New Town is particularly isolated/has kids from Haringey and Islington.
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