What's in Store for 2015?

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The crime mapping space in the business world is a small space.

But for those who do seek out crime information, more people go to SpotCrime than anywhere else.

Here is where we are by the numbers:

Emails
We are projected to send out over 125 million emails this year alone. That’s 125,000,000 alerts that are individually tailored to each user and delivered directly into their personal mailbox. 

Apps
We are the only company to have a crime map for the Kindle Fire in addition to Android and iPhone. SpotCrime.info is mobile friendly and works great on any browser.

Web traffic (from Similarweb.com)
SpotCrime trumps in web traffic. We are almost twice the size of all other major crime mapping websites combined in December!
Socially we’ve looked at the game a little differently than other crime mapping sites. Instead of posting about our own successes and daily happenings, we push out as much crime information to social platforms used by millions of people in an attempt to deliver as much relevant crime information to as many people as possible. It’s our attempt to #breaktheinternet so to speak #crime #opencrimedata #crimemapping #spotcrimerules #crimealertsforeveryone #amidoingthisright?

Blog
We do toot our own horn occasionally via this blog which happen to have over 153,700 page views in 2014. We also blog about subjects like open data, campus crime reporting, and crime around the country.

Facebook
In addition to the 25,900 likes on our main Facebook page we created Facebook pages for individual areas and cities in an attempt to push out hyperlocal crime data. Our sister site, MyLocalCrime, has garnered over 17,500 likes as well. 

Twitter
Over thousands of tweets from our city specific Twitter accounts tweeting out the latest crimes happening in each area. Check out our @dallas_crime Twitter feed as an example.

Google+
We’re not really sure if anyone uses Google+, but looking at our profile might prove otherwise. We have almost 600 followers and over 57,000 views.

Notice a pattern? All data indicates SpotCrime has more visitors than all the other crime mapping companies combined.

What is in store for 2015? 

More data! More and more cities are catching the transparency bug. Better governance through transparency, trust, and accountability. Hard to argue with that.

At SpotCrime, we encourage you not to trust any private company with distributing your public data. This includes not trusting SpotCrime. We recognize that crime data has great commercial value, but the public value is greater. Ask for the data to be made available for anyone to view, use, and share. 

We have a do no harm policy in terms of crime data. We will continue to ask police departments for timely crime data, but we will make no effort to exclude anyone else from access - including the other crime mapping companies.

Ask your police agency to be trustworthy, and make their (your) crime data fully public.

Stay aware, stay safe!

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