Boris "I'm just a Doris" Johnson.

It's nice to see that there is zero crime in downtown London. From Temple to the Tower and Beech to Upper Thames I know that I can travel with impunity: fearing neither violent or unpleasant things will happen to me.

God save the Queen and the Met for they provide the peace loving citizens of the Empire with a haven of safety amid the 'High, Above Average, and Average' levels of crime in the surrounding wards.

Decisions decisions. Do you either burgle a recently robbed street who probably have shiny new gadgets from their insurers, or do you target an area that hasn't been done for a while, and rely on their complacency.

This is a mad idea!!

i kinda like him so can't be too rude, but...

Horrace (sounds like a horse)

Norris (ie auntie)

not so much a rhyme but catchy:

bongo boris

bonkers/bananas boris (that's the last one, back to nice boris)

Use rhyming slang - so Mayor "Chuck" Johnson.

Could lead to all sorts of weird images and obvious hilarity ...

Oh and re: the cop site. Also nice if they had an overlay of "Solved crimes" - but that might prove a little embarrassing,

i wonder if this will have a bearing on house prices?!

er, i.e. go down even faster?!

thumbs up for that!

cheers,

bill

stuff and nonsense: http://www.eupeople.net/forum

Bore Us? No, he doesn't manage that...

Corus? No, they make steel pipes and the like.

Whore us [out]? No, that's Brown...

The Met have had a crime figures website for a while, in fact it's linked as 'Detailed Crime Figures' off the new one. What's new - the whizzy Google maps stuff and the coloured areas for the hard of thinking, plus it goes down to subward rather than ward level. What's missing - quite a lot of types of crime (anything except burglary, robbery and vehicle crime) and per-month comparisons so you can see trends instead of being mislead by statistical spikes from one year to the next (June 2007 had twice as many murders as June 2008, but that doesn't mean the murder rate has halved).

A cursory glance shows that crime is reducing, on the whole, nearly everywhere, but that the 'high' category covers a huge range of possible values. The boundaries are entirely arbitrary, in fact, and some explanation of how they're set would be nice.

The main problem with it is comparing dissimilar areas using the crude measure of crimes per x people - the West End is a crime hotspot on this, presumably because it's got a lot of robbery crimes committed against people who are visiting, rather than locals (pickpocketing, in other words). This skews the figure a bit, because the resident population is relatively low. It indicates a crime problem, but not one that local residents need worry about overly or one that should affect house prices (which are astronomical there anyway).

Also, it's mid-August now, and neither site has figures for July up yet...

Forest

Florist

Chorist

It's a shame it doesn't quite stretch to "embarrassed".

I guess "Forrest Johnson" has a certain something to it, though, a little feather of downy blonde hair blowing past a park bench... "Life is like a.. err.. well... hmmm... life... yes... what was I talking about again? Ah yes! Life... it could be considered shallowly analagous to a.. erm... yes... a box of chocolates. Hand-made belgian ones, obviously- none of that cheap cadburys tat for me!"

Isn't it just "Mayor Bo-Jo the clown"? Or am I missing the point?

Tori(e)s "blond haired tosser" Boris.

Must something about blondes and intellegence genes

i got one!!!

boris (dances the morris) johnson

florist kind of works too though the idea of boris morris dancing is frightenly easy to picture.

Point data (crimes)? Aggregated and classified by completely arbitary boundaries (wards)? Have they ever heard of the modifiable area unit problem (MAUP)?

Given the right boundaries to map by i bet i can make almost any crime cluster in London vanish faster than you can say Home Office Statistics.

Mine's the one with the "Basics of Geographic Information Systems and Cartography" guide in the pocket.

Clitoris... or Chorus, vaguely.

Office?

Dufus?

Wrinkley?

Orifice?

Morris Dancer Johnson?

Paris?

Boris the Loris

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loris

actually, he does look a bit like one....

Does that work?, I always got the impression he was a novice when he talked. Just seemed to be clueless. Of course he could be brilliant - I've never met him, but I just kind of got that "I'm a politician because i'm totally incompetent at anything else and wouldn't survive 10 minutes in industry" vibe. Or well he's not been Mayor long, so still fits.

Paris, because... oh i dunno.

Take the survey

but what about "Karloff" 'cause his policies certainly scare the shit out of me.

as in

"Hey, hey Blonde BJ

How many bendy buses did you get rid of today?"

or not as the case may be

(EJ Thribb is 17)

Why all this obsessing over rhyme? What's the problem with 'evil tory cunt'?

thanks

Boris 'The Blade' Johnson. As in the character in 'Snatch'. Hang on a minute.....that won't go down well.