Tools for Crime Prevention and Analysis

Bayesian Surprise for Identifying Emerging Spatio-Temporal Trends

Link to an online interactive application that allows the user to upload spatio-temporal data and to identify hotspots for a future time-frame by utilising Bayesian Surprise.

Click Here for: Application, Data and Code.

Vehicle License Plate Obscurer

Selling your car online? Prevent your car plates from being used by criminals to disguise their movements before and after committing a crime! The VLPO allows you to upload images and returns the images with the license plates automatically obfuscated.

CollaBin'

CollaBin’ (short for collaborating) is an open-source self-hosted PasteBin that enables the sharing and collaboration of code or text files. Features include automatic code syntax highlighting, optional expiry dates, and line commenting.

Download On Github or Use CollaBin’ Here!

Lexis Nexis Scraper (Python Package)

A python package for the automated scraping of the Lexis Nexis web service (requires an Academic License). Automatically scrape from over 40,000 news vendors with a customisable search query and date range. Results can be saved into a MySQL database or Pandas dataframe.

Install via PIP or visit the GitHub page here.