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.

We've just started to map more crime data for Killeen, TX - home of Fort Hood. As you'll see, patterns may or may not be emerging. For the maps below, we've selected only burglaries. At quick glance, there seems to be a concentration of burglaries closer to the military base. This may be a result of of population distribution. Notice, once you zoom in on the map, the data seems less concentrated and more dispersed. Still, there does seem to be a corridor of burglaries in Killeen. Zooming in a litter further, we find three burglaries in the same neighborhood within a span of a week. Two of these happened on the same day (November 2, 2010). Most burglars don't think their plans all of the way through. They normally look for something worth stealing, easy entry and homes that are unoccupied. According to FBI stats, a home is burglarized every 15 seconds in the US. Take your own precautions . Get involved in community watch groups to work with fellow neighbors t...