Crime prevention and Crime Rates - Coursework Example

Reflection on the Activity To start up with the news story I had to choose the topic. In the beginning I planned to use obesity and its associated factors to write my news story on. But after some research I realized that a lot has already been done in this area. I changed the topic to Crime prevention and Crime Rates. I viewed many factors that people associate with crime reduction. The most common I found were: Police performance Educational policies Employment Rates Social Policy changes Immigration Policies Reduction in Drug and Alcohol Abuse Spending on Police Departments and so on.

Hence, I chose crime reduction as a product of rising Workforce levels. The data on both factors was available on the same website. The data set I have used in this article was available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications. I used the data that was easily available on both factors. The data I chose was for the period between 2003 and 2014. I pursued annual data for analysis as it was easy and provided a broader view to the situation. After the data was gathered, I used https://datawrapper.

de to visualize it. In anticipation, I removed the extra data available on the excel sheets of governmental records and omitted unnecessary details that was available. I chose to make two different bar charts using the options available at the website. After the completion of the visualization process, I took screenshots and used them for investigation and critical analysis. I believe that Daily Express will be a suitable publication for this news to enlighten UK population on the relationship between Police workforce and the recorded crime rates.