THIS MACHINE DATA KILLS FASCISTS

Rhetoric on internment camps

Do we need to lock up all Nepali’s in YMT?

No actual data on refugee crime

Sometimes you need to find your own data

Sometimes you need to find your own data

Sometimes you need to find your own data
Inconsistent (“refugee”, “non-refoulement claimant”,
“recognisance“, form 8”, Non-ethnic Chinese, NECI)
Some districts provide everything (nationality, types of crime…).
Lots of gaps (“We don’t have data”).

Do we need to lock up all S Asians in SSP?
https://www.facebook.com/leetszking/videos/1663087000383462/

Do we need to lock up all S Asians in SSP?
No. Crime rate is low, stable, and 2% arrests are of S
Asians (50-60 people)
https://accessinfo.hk/en/request/arrestconvictionprosecution_data_2

What we did today
• Help filling data gaps (more accessinfo
requests)
• Looked for other data sources – press
releases, Judiciary, Hong Kong Legal
Information Institute database, other
gov departments
• Played with census data to normalise
• Robert visualised data (R and shiny)

Making our own open data…
http://publicdatahk.com/dataset/hong-kong-2011-census-data

Interactive view of crime stats
https://rmporsch.shinyapps.io/crime_in_hong_kong/

Breakdown of refugee crime

Appendix
• https://rmporsch.shinyapps.io/crime_in_hong_kong/
• Hong Kong Legal Information Institute http://www.hklii.hk/eng/
• Legal Reference System
databasehttp://legalref.judiciary.gov.hk/lrs/common/ju/judgme
nt.jsp
• LEGCO 2015 security panel briefing notes (inc. crime data)
http://www.vfnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Legco-
Security-Panel-7July2015-SB-brief.pdf
• PR on Elizabeth Quat question on USM (inc. crime data)
http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201504/29/P20150429066
7.htmhttp://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201504/29/P201504
290667.htm