Not a lot of information, more a heads-up

'Predictive policing' takes byte out of crime 
Crime fighters have long used brains and brawn, but now a new kind of technology known as "predictive policing" promises to make them more efficient.

Possibly not a lot of help, but JIC (although not JIT)

Terrorism and the Olympics by-the-numbers: Analysis from UMD-based START 
History offers a warning, but no clear pattern on the true risk of terrorism at the Olympic Games, concludes a new report by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) based at the University of Maryland.

Crowd movement

Experiments inform study of crowd motion 
What must the staid-faced University luminaries in those portraits around Sayles Hall have thought while they watched this scene play out for four days last week? Over and over, two to 20 young men and women in bike helmets adorned with what appeared to be five large antennae walked back and forth across a cardboard-covered floor. En route to goals marked by numbers just beneath the portraits, they dodged each other and arrangements of cardboard pillars. Each time they generated patterns of foot traffic.

Euro 'is doomed' warn experts as eurozone 'sleepwalks towards disaster'

By HUGO DUNCAN, JAMES CHAPMAN and BECKY BARROW

PUBLISHED: 09:40, 25 July 2012 | UPDATED: 10:28, 25 July 2012

The euro has broken down and faces collapse with 'incalculable economic losses and human suffering', according to an extraordinary warning from a group of leading economists.

The 17 experts said Europe was 'sleepwalking towards disaster', adding that the situation in 'debtor countries has deteriorated dramatically'.

Read more: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-2178622/Euro-doomed-warn-experts-eurozone-sleepwalks-disaster.html#ixzz21kKhNmds

Lies, lies and damned lies.

Much of the UK’s trade with non-EU countries goes via massive containers which pass through Rotterdam or Antwerp in transit.  Under EU figures, this is counted as trade with the EU even though it is clearly non-EU trade.  This distortion is serious (some estimates suggest that it causes a discrepancy of up to 8%) and often known as the ‘Rotterdam Effect’.

So much for an Etonian education!

David Cameron has this week said dismissively that if we weren’t in the EU we would be a sort of ‘greater Switzerland’ – even one of his own backbenchers pointed out that Switzerland has banks that aren’t bust, a balanced economy that’s growing, a strong manufacturing base and healthy public finances.  Nigel Farage in the Daily Express said “This interview is the final proof that if you believe in an independent self-governing Britain you cannot vote for Cameron’s Conservatives.”

Youth Violence - a new approach

Expert panel calls for new research approach to prevent youth violence
Most research into youth violence has sought to understand the risk factors that increase the likelihood of violence.

Now, a federal panel has called for a new research approach to identify the protective factors that would reduce the likelihood that violence will happen. Grounded in the tools and insights of public health, the approach calls for studies that can guide the development of prevention strategies to reduce or eliminate risk factors, and add or enhance protective factors.

The findings of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Expert Panel on Protective Factors for Youth Violence are published in a supplement to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.