The London Murder Map

There bring been 130 homicides inwards London hence far this year. The BBC has created an interactive map showing the location of each homicide, the appointment it occurred in addition to the displace of death. London Killings: All the Victims of 2018 also includes a pen portrait of all 130 of the victims.

The BBC's interactive map uses Carto's temporal functionality to present where in addition to when each London homicide occurred. Press 'play' in addition to the visualization volition animate through the whole of 2018 adding markers to the map past times the appointment of each homicide. The colors of each marking betoken the displace of death. Underneath the map a histogram shows the position out of murders inwards each calendar week of the year. This histogram is interactive in addition to tin survive used to filter the results shown on the map past times appointment range.

The position out of homicides inwards London has reached a x yr high this year. It would survive incorrect nevertheless to intend that everything was ever improve inwards the past. If you lot desire a petty historical perspective in addition to hence you lot mightiness desire to compare the BBC's map of 2018 homicides alongside the University of Cambridge's London Medieval Murder Map This map plots the locations of 142 murders which took house inwards the uppercase inwards the City of London during the starting fourth dimension one-half of the 14th century.

Admittedly the 142 murders inwards medieval London took house over a longer fourth dimension duo than this year's 130 deaths. However the population of London inwards the 14th century was significantly lower than that of London today. What hasn't changed much is that stabbing was the close dominant class of murder inwards both medieval in addition to modern London.