SpotCrime Feedback Helps Map Crime
Thanks to feedback, we've been able to add two new cities to SpotCrime - Fairfield, CA and Bellaire, TX!
Fairfield has a population of approximately 108k and we reached out to the department due to an email from a concerned user who wanted to be able to track crime in her neighborhood.
Here is the email from her - 'I live in a neighborhood that has been seeing an extensive number of home burgluries[sic]/robberies as well as vandalism. We have had at least six burglaries in the last two weeks and none of them are showing up on your map. Why is that?'
We had been mapping areas around her city, but had not yet started to map Fairfield. We reached out to the PD and within a couple of days established a feed! Pretty simple!
In Bellaire, TX, we received another email, but this time it was from an officer at the police department. The officer wanted to post crime to SpotCrime to help better inform residents of crime in his town. We established a feed with his department in less than a week as well. We are extremely impressed with the technical capabilities of a town like Bellaire mainly because of their small population of just 16,800! Let's hope towns like Bellaire help set the technological bar high for departments of their size and larger.
We encourage more of our users to reach out to us and let us know if we are not mapping your city. We also strongly encourage you to reach out to your local PD's and ask them to publish a public crime data feed that SpotCrime can use. With the power of the people, we will continue to map crime and send alerts - for free!
Contact us here http://spotcrime.com/contact.php
Stay aware, stay safe!
Fairfield has a population of approximately 108k and we reached out to the department due to an email from a concerned user who wanted to be able to track crime in her neighborhood.
Here is the email from her - 'I live in a neighborhood that has been seeing an extensive number of home burgluries[sic]/robberies as well as vandalism. We have had at least six burglaries in the last two weeks and none of them are showing up on your map. Why is that?'
We had been mapping areas around her city, but had not yet started to map Fairfield. We reached out to the PD and within a couple of days established a feed! Pretty simple!
In Bellaire, TX, we received another email, but this time it was from an officer at the police department. The officer wanted to post crime to SpotCrime to help better inform residents of crime in his town. We established a feed with his department in less than a week as well. We are extremely impressed with the technical capabilities of a town like Bellaire mainly because of their small population of just 16,800! Let's hope towns like Bellaire help set the technological bar high for departments of their size and larger.
We encourage more of our users to reach out to us and let us know if we are not mapping your city. We also strongly encourage you to reach out to your local PD's and ask them to publish a public crime data feed that SpotCrime can use. With the power of the people, we will continue to map crime and send alerts - for free!
Contact us here http://spotcrime.com/contact.php
Stay aware, stay safe!
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