There bring been 130 homicides inwards London thus far this year. The BBC has created an interactive map showing the place of each homicide, the appointment it occurred in addition to the drive 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 mark signal the drive of death. Underneath the map a histogram shows the publish of murders inwards each calendar week of the year. This histogram is interactive in addition to tin live on used to filter the results shown on the map past times appointment range.
The publish of homicides inwards London has reached a 10 twelvemonth high this year. It would live on incorrect silent to intend that everything was ever ameliorate inwards the past. If you lot desire a footling historical perspective in addition to thus you lot powerfulness desire to compare the BBC's map of 2018 homicides amongst the University of Cambridge's London Medieval Murder Map This map plots the locations of 142 murders which took house inwards the working capital alphabetic quality inwards the City of London during the outset one-half of the 14th century.
Admittedly the 142 murders inwards medieval London took house over a longer fourth dimension twosome 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 bird of murder inwards both medieval in addition to modern London.
