Wanna learn how to search by date range on SpotCrime?

Here are some instructions that show you how to narrow your crime data search by date on our interactive maps.

On the homepage, select the state that you want to search from the dropdown menu on the top right-hand side of the page.

Once you've selected the state that you want, hit Go. I'm going to do a date range search in Jacksonville, Florida.

Once you hit Go, a list of Florida cities are available to select from. To view the interactive map for Jacksonville, click Jacksonville Crime Map.

As you can see, the interactive maps look a bit different from the map on the homepage. There are several features that allow you to narrow down your data search, including date ranges. I'm going to search all available data for the dates of April 25th-May 2nd, 2011.

Select the from date and the to date, then hit Refresh Map.

Once the map is refreshed, only the crimes that fall within the dates of April 25th and May 2nd appear.

Comments

Anonymous said…
How long of a date range can I specify? It seems no matter what range I've got, only crimes from the most recent few day show up. It's not necessarily that helpful to look at such a short snapshot :( Am I doing something wrong here? I tried Jan-May and saw only the most recent days in May. Backing up the end date to march then feb gave me the few days before each of those end dates...
Anonymous said…
wow i think i submitted that 5x because i didn't see a "has been saved and will be visible with approval" tag until i went back to the article. apologies!

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