SpotCrime - The Public's Crime Map

We started mapping crime in Temple, TX ! Temple is located in central Texas north of Austin and south of Dallas nestled next to Killeen and Fort Hood. It’s population is about 66k. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice operates an office out of Temple. Check out the SpotCrime Temple map to get an idea of crime in your area. Don’t forget to sign up for your local Temple, TX crime alert ! We are mapping crime regularly in neighboring Killeen as well. If your local police agency is sharing public crime data with a vendor, make sure they share it openly with the public too. Vendors may have incentive to not share the information openly leading to public data being restricted to the public and press. Stay aware, stay safe.

Head to SpotCrime or MyLocalCrime to view the Hays County crime map! Hays County is situated between two major cities in Texas -- Austin and San Antonio .  The county actually holds part of Austin, however most of Austin is found in Travis County .  Hays' county seat is San Marcos and is home to cities like Kyle and Buda .  The county was founded in 1848 with fewer than 500 residents.  It is now one of the fastest growing counties in Texas , with a current population of about 157k! SpotCrime receives data directly from the Hays County, TX Sheriff's office .   SpotCrime and MyLocalCrime are good resources to use if your interested in what's happening in your neighborhood and to stay informed.  It's a great tool for the police department to connect with residents and help make communities safer. Be sure to thank the Sheriff's office for making their data public and providing it to SpotCrime to be mapped!  Go to SpotCrime or MyLocalCrime to sign up for your l

The above map shows the shootings in and around Austin Texas for 2009. Data for the Austin Crime Map is compiled by SpotCrime from news and police sources. To see the full SpotCrime Austin Map click the link below: http://www.spotcrime.com/tx/austin

Examiner article here It would seem the marginal cost of sharing data once a police agency has formated their data for one outlet would be very small. SpotCrime is capable of converting most any data format. Additionally, SpotCrime has already been called more accurate by an independent technology expert. We are encouraged by any police department that is taking steps to make their data more public. We caution that with the decreased cost of technology and free tools provided by Google that they do not overspend for long term consulting agreements. An alternative approach would be distribute the data publicly through the internet allowing multiple organizations to map and analyze the data. Many cities in the US are following this example including Washington DC, Oakland, Baltimore, Chicago and Dallas. SpotCrime contends that there are potentially many more benefits to making crime data fully public. New discoveries and platforms for this data are only hampered when data is held hosta

Shootings in Austin Texas. Using the available data in SpotCrime , we created the above shooting map for Austin. Date range used was January to June 2008.