Service Interruption- Internet Gremlins Attack SpotCrime

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Dear SpotCrime Subscriber,

Early last week, we encountered two attacks to our servers.  The result of these attacks was an interruption of retrieving crime data for certain parts of the country and our regular crime details pages were shut down.

As backup for events like these, we run two additional crime mapping websites SpotCrime.info and MyLocalCrime.com.  Both continued to run during the attack.  

We are actively working on a solution, and should be fully operational today.

If you experienced a broken url link over the weekend, those links should be working now.

Over the last four years, SpotCrime has become one of the largest and most visited crime mapping websites on the Internet.   From time to time we are going to experience growing pains from the amount of visitors and the occasional attempt to shut us down.

We currently serve over 6 million people monthly through our website, mobile apps, partners, and crime alerts.   Each month we send over 3 million crime alerts.  More people visit us than any other crime mapping site in the US.  We now have over 21 m. crimes mapped on SpotCrime.

SpotCrime was built on a news model.  Just like your local paper, we have advertising.  And we have never billed any public agency for our services.

Please help keep your crime data free and unrestricted by thanking your local police departments for making crime data available to us.  It is our belief that no company or news agency should get preferential access to crime data- not even us.   Fully open data increases the amount of people receiving the data and hopefully reducing crime through knowledge.  Restricted data is harmful and discriminatory.

As part of our pledge to open data, we are developing open distribution of our data in areas where we are the sole mapping company.  

We treasure your feedback.  Please send us a line at feedback@spotcrime.com.    And please give us a “Like’ on Facebook.  http://www.facebook.com/crimemap

Thanks for your patience.  

Sincerely,

Colin Drane
Founder
SpotCrime.com
MyLocalCrime.com
UCrime.com
(619) 663-7768

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