SpotCrime - The Public's Crime Map

Check out the SpotCrime crime listing for the spree of robberies that recently hit south west Baltimore.  The suspects targeted businesses in Lakeland and Landsdowne, MD located in Baltimore City and Baltimore County .  Both the County and City departments worked on the investigation.  A tip from the public led to the arrests! Seeing these robberies on a map makes it apparent they were connected because they happened in close proximity to each other.  This is a good tactic to note when checking out crime maps for your own community watch - pay attention to any reoccurring crimes in close proximity of each other, then keep an eye out.  It's probable that the same crime will happen again, committed by the same person.  Sometimes this is typical with car thefts and burglaries too - the criminal hits multiple times in the same area.  Your community watch group may be able to spot them in action with enough time to call the local police department to catch them. Want to make your

Not only can SpotCrime's database map crime, it can also provide simple analytics of those crimes. This feature is easily accessed by, first, clicking on the state and then clicking on the red, circle like figure next to the crime map link. Analytics can provide you with some interesting information such as a pie chart of crimes by type for the past week and the current week. Also, it provides a crime graph that tracks the number of crimes over the last two months. An example of this type of graph is below. This graph tracks the number of crimes in Baltimore county by date for the past two months. It allows you to see the trends in crime. What is most interesting about this graph is that one can see that the peaks as well as some of the troughs of the graph coincide between the two months. I tried to see if those peak were all on the same day however, there was no trend between the day and number of crimes.