Following the same methodology for my first blog on “PCCs’ first Police and Crime Plans”, here’s the raw data for the five forces in the North East of England (i.e. the North East policing regional grouping) who have published a draft plan. Note that neither South Yorkshire nor West Yorkshire have yet published a draft plan on their website – so are excluded from this analysis. Remaining forces to follow over the next few days…
Number of words within the Draft Policing Plan
Cleveland: 3296
Durham: 7473
Humberside: 11485
North Yorkshire: 5785
Northumbria: 569 (the shortest so far)
Most popular words within the Draft Policing Plan
“Crime” for Northumbria, North Yorkshire and Cleveland, “Police” for Humberside and Durham. Wordles for each below…
Categorising by areas of focus
What next?
I’ll continue to present the raw data from PCCs’ first Police and Crime Plans in more detail over the coming days and weeks, and will provide some analysis once data from all forces is presented here.
As mentioned in my earlier blogs on this: in true crowdsourcing tradition, I’d welcome feedback on the approach I’m following. I’d also welcome feedback on the material I’ve presented so far. Do therefore feel free to add a comment…
Well done, an interesting resource. I’m surprised by how much can be revealed by textual analysis. It is disturbing to see how much emphasis is placed upon anti social behaviour. No one can deny that ASB is distressing, the problem is its definition. All too often, it comes down to dealing with minorities whom we find somewhat distasteful. Teenagers are to often targeted for hanging around, when the real problem is that our towns and society has little to offer the underprivileged young. Another group who fall prey to ASB policing are travellers. But there are some times of behaviour that are decidedly anti-social which all too easily escape police attention, for example, the blocking of doorways with parked cars: in this case those responsible are seen as respectable, and the problems they create are ignored by police.