SpotCrime - The Public's Crime Map

SpotCrime has recently added significant more data to our Houston Crime map below. Historically, the Houston Police Department was providing data one month behind the current month. They have just started to make the crime data available on a daily basis. Once the data become more current, the news reported data is crowed out by other less newsworthy crimes (thefts and burglaries). SpotCrime is still collecting reported shootings in Houston, and we have provided a heat map that shows the concentration of where the shootings happen in the city.

The two heat maps above show areas of concentration of the last 100 reported shootings in Baltimore. The second map, we've included the data points to show how the heat graphic displays concentration. While no map perfectly depicts information, this is an interesting tool to show areas of crime concentration- particularly shootings. In the case of these heat maps, "hotter areas" or bright yellow areas are locations with higher concentration of shootings based on proximity to each other. We created these maps using HeatmapAPI (http://www.heatmapapi.com/ ).