Residents reported 31 snatches and parcel thefts here over the last twelve months, across roughly 6,000 homes. Almost all of it was property taken from a hand, a lobby or a bike store — not from a person who was hurt.
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Individual reports live in each tracker, not here. A single feed of every theft in E20 would make eight events across three months read as a wave.
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recorded by police in and around E20
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reported by residents here
These two counts measure different things and should not be added together. Most street thefts are never reported to the police, and police records include incidents nobody mentioned on EVH.
Locations are snapped to anonymised map points, so a crime shown on a street did not necessarily happen on it. Counts also only include what was reported to the police.
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Nearly all snatches reported here happen within a few minutes of Stratford station, on the walk in or out, and almost all of them take a phone that was already in a hand. Putting it away before you reach the bridge removes the opportunity entirely.
Most parcel losses reported here were left in an unsecured lobby rather than taken from a doorstep. A collection point or a named neighbour is the single change that moves it, and it costs nothing.
Where a bike theft has been reported it has usually been from a communal store rather than a stand outside. A second lock through the frame, and reporting a door that stops latching, are both more use than a better lock on the street.
Reporting here does not reach the police. It warns your neighbours.
EVH has no way to report a person, a description or someone behaving oddly, and it never will. Every report describes what happened, not who was nearby. There is also no safety score: a single number over counts this small would move on two incidents and could not be defended.
Most street thefts are never reported to the police, and police records include incidents nobody mentioned on EVH. Neither is the real figure and adding them produces a number that is true of nothing.
The snatch tracker refuses police points on its heat map while this page uses the police aggregate, and that is not a contradiction: it is the same dataset, right at one zoom level and wrong at another. Anonymised point-snapping ruins a precise map and does not matter at all at neighbourhood scale.