Analysis of Crime Perceptions in Montevideo

Abstract

This article analyses an original crime data set from Montevideo, Uruguay's capital city, in 2019. The data was collected from various sources: News Web Portals, for example El Observador, Teledoce, El País and MontevideoCOMM; mobile phone applications in which users report crimes such as CityCop; and Official Data from Home Office annual reports, that despite being an open data set, it is not easily consumable. Our main objective is to study the relationship between the perception of CitiCop users through reported crimes, media perception as presented in News Web Portals and Official Data which is of public domain. Geostatistical techniques are applied to analyse similarities and differences between the three perceptions previously described. Results show interesting coincidences and dissents.