News24 is launching an app designed to help South Africans understand their risk in becoming a victim in their areas. The app provides a gauge of risk on a series of crime indices as well as on several individual crimes like murder and burglary. The engine of the CrimeCheck risk gauge is the rate of crime per 1 000 people in a police precinct or the rate of crime per 1 000 households in a precinct. These figures are then used to calculate the crime rate for various categories or crime types in each precinct. This is the value which powers the risk gauge for each precinct.

Source: News 24 July 20, 2022 07:44 UTC