BorisadeJF22/CRIME-TRENDS-IN-WEST-AFRICA-BETWEEN-1970-2020_BorisadeJF
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This analysis was carriedout to monitor the trends of crimes committed in West Africa from 1970 to 2020. It took me two days to complete this analysis and present recommendations.
**ANALYTICAL REPORT ON CRIME TRENDS IN WEST AFRICA BETWEEN 1970-2020**
The analysis on the crime trends in west Africa from 1970 t0 2020, was carried out to ascertain the level of crime and its trends in West Africa. All Recorded Crimes for over fifty years, perpetrators, cities, number of injuries and fatalities. In a bid to gain insights into how much crime has graduated over the last five decades, I decided to assess Global Terrorism Database(GTD) and devise a way to collect as much detailed data as is available. Account of crimes recorded across Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Benin, Chad, Nigeria. The data set was gotten from Kaggle.com. It was cleaned, analysis commensed and was presented on a dashbaord using excel and pivot table to creats the charts.
**OBSERVATION**
The following observations where made:
1. In the year 2018, was the year that recorded the highest amount of fatality rate in West Africa.
2. The country with the highest number of fatalities is Nigeria with a total of 5550 Cases Compared to other West African countries listed.
3. The weapon used by the perpetrators with the highest number of fatalities is the Armed Assault with total of 2090 fatalities.
4. The city with the highest count of fatalities and injured victims is Maiduguri with a total of 1745 fatalities and 2380 injured victims
5. The group of people that was targeted the most by the crim perpetrators are the private citizens and properties standing at a total of 60% compared to the other targeted calss of of people.
6. The country with the highest count of injured people is Nigeria with a total of 12638.
**RECOMMENDATIONS**
The follwing recoomendations was made:
1. Public sensitization and Enlightenment: the government and other stake holders should ensure there is adequate public enlightenment about the existence of this criminals in the society and the increasing rate of crime in the society. The citizens should encourage to keep watch and always stay safe.
2. Investing more on …