All the crime map shows up is Whitehall's pointless zest for data | Simon Jenkins

Theresa May's crime map joins school league tables in its statistical fatuity. The information geeks need holding to account

I am mesmerised by Police.uk. I am mesmerised not by the website itself, which merely tells us what we knew, that the Tories did not mean it about seeking a smaller and less intrusive state. Theresa May, the home secretary, claimed this week that the nation is "entitled to know" that two cars were broken into in my street and a couple of "antisocials" took place outside ...