SpotCrime - The Public's Crime Map

We often complain about cities who don't share crime data openly (San Jose) or move away from transparency ( Indianapolis ) and don't give enough kudos to cities who move in the right direction. Well, we'd like to say: Way To Go Fort Worth, TX ! Fort Worth recently announced the launch of their open data portal and we've learned that they will be posting a crime data set on the portal by October. Currently, we are manually requesting data from the Fort Worth PD. We've been required to FOIA request crime data from the department  for the past five years . There are two proprietary vendor crime mapping companies who are already mapping crime in Fort Worth, but due to restrictions on the vendor websites, the data is not open (meaning it can't be used and shared by anyone). When we see the dataset available on the open data portal in October, we'll be happily mapping it, ceasing our manual requests, and we'll move Fort Worth's SpotCrime Crim

Ft Worth, TX SpotCrime Map There was an interruption in the SpotCrime data recently in Fort Worth, TX, but the mapping has now resumed!  We'd like to thank to Fort Worth PD for working with us to get data back on the map. Check out the Fort Worth SpotCrime map to see what crime occurs in your area.  You can also see a 'quickview' on MyLocalCrime .  Stay informed and know your neighborhood by s signing up for your local crime alerts.  Every watchful eye helps in the fight against crime! Stay Safe!

The above crime map shows the shootings in Fort Worth that SpotCrime has been able to identify and map in 2008. As you can see from the map, there seems to be a concentration of shooting activity in the southeast quarter of Fort Worth. To see additional crime information on SpotCrime click on the following link: http://spotcrime.com/tx/fort+worth