Unfortunately, many police services in Canadian cities are protective
of crime data. In the City of Montreal, the police issue reports twice
a year, but they are not granular enough to be of journalistic
interest. There is better data in Montreal's West Island - with crimes
being reported down to the block if I remember correctly. As far as I
know, no Canadian paper has a "data desk" like at the NYT, Chicago
Tribune, LA Times, Texas Tribune, and St. Petersburg Times (that's
actually an exhaustive list of the US papers that I know have data
desks).
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Tracey P. Lauriault <
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