TIL norway has a homicide map with exact locations of murders.
The map contains exact locations of homocides from the 2000s to now. You can zoom in far enough to see the neighborhood the murder(s) happened in. I'm sorry that the site is primarily in Norwegian, but you should still be able to zoom around. Wonder of there's a global map that's that detailed.
People live in cities.
With the data I have at hand, people mostly seem to die in them.
Good old /peopleliveincities content.
But... these people are dead.
/peoplelivedincities
I am a data scientist and I found an interesting pattern, hear me out...
All I see is
we learned our lesson the first time, time to put more cops in the dark areas where murders will cripple Norway permanently
As long as Norway stays off the ground
Didn't know the Na'vi had anti-aircraft weapons.
Well, there's one terror attack that happened on the island of utøya, apparently 69 people were killed
On Friday 22 July 2011, Norway was hit by two terrorist attacks. The bomb attack on the government quarter and the mass murder on Utøya are the worst acts of terrorism in Norway since the Second World War. The attack was politically motivated.
The perpetrator wanted to hit the state, the Labor Party and the party's youth in AUF.
At the AUF camp on Utøya in the Tyrifjord, 69 people were killed. 32 of those killed on the island were under the age of 18. The two youngest were only 14 years old. It took just over an hour from the time the police received information about the shots on the island until the perpetrator was arrested.
There were a total of 564 people on Utøya when the terrorist attacked. 495 survived by hiding in buildings, under dead friends, on mountain slopes or by swimming ashore.
The perpetrator, Anders Behring Breivik, is serving a sentence of 21 years in prison. In court, Breivik admitted to having committed the murders, but he pleaded not guilty.
If I remember correctly, the police failed to arrive quickly because he bombed a government building in central Oslo. When they did arrive to the general area, they found out that the amount of equipment they had to bring with them caused them to exceed the weight limit of the boat they used which in turn flooded the engine with water. To add to the series of unfortunate events and general incompetence, they were forced to travel 3.6 km to the island instead of the planned 600m, adding delays to their arrival.
I remember the days after the attacks as I couldn't attend school due to many of the teachers losing their children at Utøya. Many of the teachers I had resigned as they couldn't bear the weight of lost family.
It still messes with me even though I was 6 or 7 when this happened, and wasn't directly affected. I can't think of how much pain those parents had to have endured
Oh I remember that, that was awful. He specifically wanted to kill children.
Yeah, that red circle around Utøya is really sad 😞
According to later statistics released by Klassekampen, one in four Norwegians directly knew somebody affected by the attacks.
Wow, Sweden is so much safer! \s
How do I report murders that aren't showing up on the map? I've tried refreshing a million times and I'm 100% sure the murders are finalized?
Have you tried turning the victim(s) on then off again? If that doesn't fix your issue I suggest you call tech support. Their local hotline is 112, and if you're looking for the international one it's 911. Both lines are toll free.
Nah he should install Arch
You can try murdering your neighbor, see if they show up
Hmm, that's weird, they missed one.
What?
Looks like a Swede crossed the border one time and was immediately murdered by a Norwegian.
Note to self, don't visit Olso, visit Stockholm. /s
But only for shopping /s
Well.... It's not "Norway has a map of murders", but a newspaper in Norway has made a map of murders in Norway.
The closer you are to Denmark the more murderous you become...
Out of envy of their happiness. You only become more murderous the closer you get while still being outside of Denmark, as soon as you enter the country the murderous part of your brain detaches from the rest and slides into your mouth, which explains the way they talk.
as soon as you enter the country the murderous part of your brain detaches from the rest and slides into your mouth, which explains the way they talk.
That made me actually laugh out loud. Thanks; I needed that.
Homicide* ... unless you actually mean homocide.
✨Dyslexia✨
Interesting that this map also specifies who was the victim.
I assume it's to humanize the victims of homicides, rather than portraying them as mere statistics on a spreadsheet.
Kinda sad tho
How is this possible don't they have to keep them anonymous?
Here's the reason for why the data is public (according to them)
This is why VG publishes an overview of all Norwegian murders
All murders have ripple effects. For the immediate family, for the local community and for society at large. VG has mapped all murder cases from 2000 to the present day.
Openness about who, where, how and why people are killed is important in order to be able to conduct a knowledge-based debate about murder as a social problem. It is only when the public knows what is happening that it is possible to implement preventive measures.
In recent years, a number of miscarriages of justice have been uncovered. VG believes that openness about criminal cases and legal processes is an important safety valve for avoiding prejudgment - and strengthening legal certainty for both victims and suspects.
Through its work on the report series "The unsolved deaths", VG revealed in 2023 that the official Norwegian statistics on unsolved murders were missing several murder victims. This underlines the need for an ongoing public overview of all murder cases - regardless of police assessments.
This text was translated to English using deepl. Here's the original article
The Nordics are generally less reluctant with personal data compared to e.g. Germany.
It makes it all the more sad, I feel.
And for the other side of the border våldskartan.se or map of shootings.
Whoa that's cool
This documentary was inspired by the murder of Gunnar Gunnarssonsson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-OOpZitfd0
You got me.
Lol if you actually want a good documentary check this out
Damn... seeing the faces of the victims makes the impact even bigger.
Looks like there is a little bit of space for a new "northernmost" murder left; southernmost is already a done deal.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Aww how inspirational
Lots of nazis in the south for real.
So if I visit the area, just avoid Norway and go hangout in Stockholm instead.
The UK has something similar but you can search by all types of crime https://crimerate.co.uk/crime-map
When you're logged out, you can only access data on antisocial people, like logged out of society.
Love the accidental metaphor
I'm already signed up as I'm house hunting and I tried this to get a vague idea of where to move to.
This is what it looks like for England/Wales
No statistics for Manchester, though. I haven't looked into why that's a thing.
Edit:
A small section of Central London. It only tells you the rate vs the national average. The red in the population box at the top showing that crime here is more than 3x the national average (it doesn't show any higher figures)
I’d like to see such a map for mass shootings in the U.S.
Close enough.
Yes officer, this comment right here.
Per year or all time?
All time from 2000 - 2024
Being able to look through all of the details of the victims and crimes feels a little ghoulish.
Now I want to know how many murders happened across Jo Nesbø's novels compared to the actual number of murders in Norway.
What the fuck happened to Oslo?
1/5th of norway's population lives in Oslo which is why the homocide rates seem inflated on that map
We have that too, it's called google maps
https://xkcd.com/1138/
And that's why it's important to look at these numbers pr capita in a given area if we want to draw useful conclusions
Which also requires additional consideration for low population areas that can have their statistics swing wildly.
You ever notice how the third map's actually different? How there is suddenly a red dot down at the bottom about where San Antonio is?
All three are different
I was gonna post this if you didn't, lol.
All I'm seeing is if you're in the northern half of Norway, stay away from water and you won't die.
I've actually found the opposite to be the case worldwide.
You'll die before someone has a chance to murder you.