Winthrop Police Blotter
This project found which streets have more police events in Winthrop, MA, as reported by the town police blotter. This turned out to be a greater challenge than expected, due to the fact that the police blotter was written by hand and had very little consistency between each post. This required that the web scraping algorithm needs to be quite general, and the urls are in no particular order. To overcome the latter, I checked every URL of the newspaper since 2009, tracking which ones met the requirements to be a police blotter. Then, I extracted all of the events from all of the posts using BeautifulSoup and general web scraping practices. The total police events were then devided by the cumulative length of the street to get a event to length ratio for each street.
