SpotCrime - The Public's Crime Map

Here is one example of how SpotCrime attempts to get data and the headwinds we face. Back in 2011, our founder Colin Drane responded to a request that appeared in the Google Group ‘Geospatial and Crime Analysis Technologies - Resources’ by Susan Smith, then Crime Analyst of the Shawnee Police Department in Kansas. The request was regarding a project and requested information on Geospatial and Crime Analysis Technologies. We offered to map crime data for free and received this terse response: From: Susan Smith < SSmith@ci.shawnee.ks.us > Date: Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:51 AM Subject: Re: Geospatial and Crime Analysis Technologies - Resources- SpotCrime To: Colin Drane < colin@spotcrime.com > Cc: Brittany Lambert < lambert@spotcrime.com > Hi Colin, I am familiar with your company. I just finished a 2-year study of the online crime mapping companies. Thus, I don't need your folks to map some of the data from the Shawnee log. We already h...

Check out some screenshots from sites like Alexa , SimilarWeb , and Compete showing traffic and ranking comparisons of SpotCrime to three other crime mapping sites. SpotCrime is still the most visited crime mapping site compared to all other sites. This does not include traffic from our sister sites like MyLocalCrime and SpotCrime.info , traffic from our media partners like Gannett and Sinclair , or traffic from our Android and iPhone apps (which are are the #1 crime mapping apps on both the Google Play and iTunes app stores!) Below are screenshots from Similar web showing comparisons of SpotCrime, CrimeMapping, CrimeReports, and Raidsonline. SpotCrime as more estimated views, time spent on site and page views than all of the other sites. Below are screen shots from Alexa which shows that SpotCrime is ranked higher than all other sites - Globally and in the US. Finally, below are screenshots from Compete.com showing SpotCrime traffic twice the size of...