SpotCrime - The Public's Crime Map

We've added a new feature to SpotCrime ! On all of our city maps there is a new tab called 'Crime In'. The 'Crime In' tab shows a summary of crime information for specific cities where we are populating crime. Our hope is this summary data and analysis, paired with our daily email alerts , will give residents an even better idea of crime in their neighborhood over time. You can Google search with the keywords '(your city) crime map' and a SpotCrime city map should be one of the first results. You can also navigate to our city map pages by clicking on 'Browse by State' and choosing a state. From the state page you'll see a list of cities. These are our 'city maps'. Choose any city to see crime in that city. SpotCrime 'State Page' list of cities. Above the map on the city map page you will see a 'Crime In' tab. Clicking on this tab leads shows you a summary of the data you are seeing on the SpotCrime map...

You can now check out crime in your area on your TV! SpotCrime on Apple TV In an effort to place crime data into the hands of as many people as possible we’ve launched the SpotCrime Apple TV app . The app will pinpoint your location and show up to date crime information in your area.  You’ll be able to use the Apple TV remote to search for a specific address, drag the map to a new location, view a crime list, and see more detail on each crime by selecting a specific icon.  We hope the app is another channel (no pun intended) to seamlessly access relevant crime information. If you prefer Chromecast, you can cast the SpotCrime app to your TV with any device running Android 4.4.2 or higher. SpotCrime crime list on Apple TV Don’t see crime in your area? Let us know and ask your local police agency to share data. SpotCrime will map crime and send out email alerts to residents for free.  We believe openness with crime data will create a highe...

We’re happy to announce the newest addition to the SpotCrime family - SpotSpec.com ! SpotSpec, powered by SpotCrime , takes an in-depth look at crime around specific places and generates crime rankings and reports for locations like schools, restaurants, and hotels. The ultimate goal of SpotSpec is to provide a useful tool that creates awareness with the public, highlights the importance of police data transparency, and increases community trust with police agencies. For now, we have rolled it out exclusively for Baltimore City Schools , Baltimore County schools , and Baltimore City restaurants , but hope to be able to add more areas and locations soon. Each location receives:  A calculated SpotCrime SpotSpec score A ranking against other similar locations And an individually tailored Crime Spec report We hope you find this new tool useful and interesting. Go out, explore, be aware, and be safe. Head on over to www.SpotSpec.com and let...

Check out some screenshots from sites like Alexa , SimilarWeb , and Compete showing traffic and ranking comparisons of SpotCrime to three other crime mapping sites. SpotCrime is still the most visited crime mapping site compared to all other sites. This does not include traffic from our sister sites like MyLocalCrime and SpotCrime.info , traffic from our media partners like Gannett and Sinclair , or traffic from our Android and iPhone apps (which are are the #1 crime mapping apps on both the Google Play and iTunes app stores!) Below are screenshots from Similar web showing comparisons of SpotCrime, CrimeMapping, CrimeReports, and Raidsonline. SpotCrime as more estimated views, time spent on site and page views than all of the other sites. Below are screen shots from Alexa which shows that SpotCrime is ranked higher than all other sites - Globally and in the US. Finally, below are screenshots from Compete.com showing SpotCrime traffic twice the size of...

New York City is the largest city in the US, with a population more than LA and Chicago (the next two most populated US cities) combined. NYC is the cultural hub of the US, historically for Ellis Island and currently for the UN Headquarters,  is home of the largest Asian population in the Western Hemisphere, and the largest Jewish population outside of Israel, just to name a few . In addition to being culturally diverse, it holds the world’s financial center with the NYSE and Wall Street. Tourism is huge in NYC. There are 50.9 million visitors to the city annually. With tourist spots like Times Square commonly referred to as The Crossroads of the World, Broadway as one of the busiest intersections for pedestrians, the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, and Central Park as one of the most visited parks in the US, it’s no wonder the city draws 40.3 million domestic visitors and 10.6 international visitors throughout the year. Some think the crime rate in NYC is r...

Check out the SpotCrime Hamilton County, OH map! Hamilton County is the third most populous county in Ohio, mainly because the county seat is Cincinnati - the third most populous city in Ohio . Hamilton County population is about 802k. A screen shot of the SpotCrime Hamilton County map SpotCrime collects crime data from the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office to create crime maps and email alerts for residents. The HCSO patrols unincorporated areas of the county, including ten unincorporated townships - Anderson, Colerain, Columbia, Crosby, Green, Harrison, Miami, Sycamore, Symmes, Whitewater, and Village of North Bend. You can easily search your local township on the front page of SpotCrime . We are also collecting crime data from Cincinnati, check out the SpotCrime Cincy map here . Interested in learning about crime in your area? Head to SpotCrime or MyLocalCrime . If you're on your mobile device, use SpotCrime.info or our iPhone app . And make sure to...

SpotCrime has started to map crime data in Dayton, Ohio ! Dayton, OH on SpotCrime.com The Dayton Police Department pushes crime information to the public via their own website. SpotCrime uses that information to map Dayton. Why map the crime data on our map too you ask? SpotCrime has over half a million subscribers . That's roughly more than 5 million email alerts we send out on a monthly basis to our subscribers. We figure the more eyes we can get on the crime, the safer the communities will become! So go ahead, check out the Dayton PD website and SpotCrime. Figure out which one you like best. Just remember, it doesn't matter which map and alerts you prefer, just as long as you share the information with your neighbors. Stay aware, stay safe!

The National Institute of Justice has recently announced new funding opportunities for research . If you are planning on applying for NIJ funding for research please remember that SpotCrime has free data for research and plans to release more data in 2013. We are committed to release and share public crime data for positive purposes. We made our historical database available earlier this year in hopes that crime patterns apparent in the data would be analyzed and new methods of crime prevention would arise from the findings. Some of the research the NIJ will be funding sounds pretty interesting. One program will provide funding for analysis of existing data the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data. Another program will provide funding to the Ph.D. Graduate Research Fellowship for research on crime, violence, and other criminal just related topics.It would be interesting to see what researchers find from their analysis of that data, especially at the Ph.D. level - it would also b...

According to Compete.com , 55% of the people looking at the major crime maps in the US for July 2012 go to SpotCrime.com. Here's the breakdown and chart below: Thanks everyone for making SpotCrime the most visited crime mapping website in the US.   And many thanks to all the police agencies who make their data fully public without restrictions on sharing.   We should all be in this fight against crime together. Finally, a big thank you to our media partners who help us get this vital public information to the public.  Knowledge is power, and transparency strengthens our great democracy. We should all have equal and fair access to crime information for our neighborhoods.

We are testing out some SpotCrime data on ArcGIS.  Check it out View Larger Map It was fairly simple.  Choose the basemap you want to use, then add a layer by uploading a file with data and, boom goes the dynamite , you have a crime map. You can hover over each orange dot to view some metadata about the point.  This is a great feature, however I would find the map more useful if I could make each incident a different icon.  This is what I like about SpotCrime - our picture icons are easily identifiable.  I'd also like a search option (date range, crime type, keyword). The best thing about this map is the share feature - you can easily embed the map, share it on Facebook or Twitter, or share the link with whomever you want. Check out the ArcGIS ESRI site here Don't see your city on SpotCrime ?  Reach out to your local PD and ask them to send us data.  We will map it for free!

I live in Smalltown, USA.  The closest airport is 2 hours away.  In fact, 2 hours is how long it takes me to get to any major city(or mall for that matter).  It’s nice living in a small town - no traffic, quiet, and feels safe.  But when I leave my small town, it’s the opposite.  Whenever I venture out of Smalltown, USA, I make sure to check out the area where I’ll be hanging out - especially the crime in the area.   I’ve found that, with the amount of technology floating around the Internet these days, this isn’t as easy as it may seem. From the airport to Smalltown, USA, it’s about 100 miles one way, about a 2 hour drive, passing through many cities/counties/jurisdictions. Where is the safest place to take a pit stop along the busy, bustling I-5 highway? If I want to learn about crime in all of the areas I pass through, I have to check out 4 different crime maps.   Yes. Four. How am I supposed to get a clear picture of crime if I have to check out fo...

In this post, I’d like to talk about the limitations of public crime maps and quasi-public-proprietary crime maps.   Don’t get me wrong, we at SpotCrime are fans of crime maps .  They are an effective tool to represent crime data and get information to the public.  But, crime maps are just one of many options of delivering useful crime data to the public. Maps in general will always have some type of dimensional limitations.  No matter how you adjust the parameters of time and distance with data on a map, it will still be just an incremental snapshot of the data set.   With crime data, if you take a too small snapshot and an area can appear to have no crime.  Take a too large of a snapshot and amount of crime data could crowd the map, show too much crime, and render the map unreadable.  Heat maps are sometimes employed to show density of data on a map, but these too have their own adjustable variances that can influence what is being projected. ...

When you think of WalMart, do you typically think of crime? Just Google 'WalMart crime' and you'll pull up a number of website and stories with crimes that have occurred in and around Walmart. Here is a screenshot of a SpotCrime crime list of a few WalMart crimes Scary? Or typical? To put things in perspective, there are about 629 WalMarts and 3,029 super-center Walmarts in the US today.  Each WalMart employs about 225-350 associates and the size of the average store is approximately 108,000-185,000 square feet. If you were to place all of the WalMarts in the US in one city, it would cover about 22 square miles (that's not even not including parking lots) a size equivalent to cities like Longmont, CO and Madera, CA .  However, the employee population of the WalMart city would much larger than Longmont or Madera, it would be approximately 1, 201,675  people - about the same size as Dallas, TX or San Diego, CA - and that doesn't include the customers! E...

Great day for SpotCrime today.  We've reached 250,000 subscribers late last night.  Thanks everyone for signing up and please provide feedback when you get the chance.  Your input helps us improve.  And, if we are not getting data from your local Police or Sheriff department, please ask them to share with us.  We'll map and provide alerts for free. NBC NYC did a story on SpotCrime last night.  You can see the video here: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/on-air/as-seen-on/New_App_Tracks_Crime_by_Neighborhood_New_York- 121382328.html And here: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Neighborhood-Crime-Watch-Goes-Digital-121363264.html Thanks Tom Llamas

Today we eclipsed 200,000 in alert sign ups for SpotCrime! Earlier this month, we reached 100k in daily alerts are now routinely exceeding 100 k alerts each day. This does not include SpotCrime's other platforms. (DirecTV, iPhone, Layar, and Aloqa) Adding in our media outlets, over 1 m. people monthly interact with our crime data. And we now have over 14 m. crimes mapped. If we are not mapping your neighborhood, let us know, and we will reach out to your police department.

Spot The Baddy is a pretty neat site that makes fun of our data-- literally. As soon as you enter the site, you're greeted by the tunes of the Beverly Hills Cop theme and you're off to spot the baddy! There are several points on the map that indicate where a possible crime has occurred...you have to guess which one it is. You get 30 seconds to pick the correct one, and hints scroll above the map. You collect points for each one you guessed correctly or: The baddy gets away! Check it out. Play with it. Let us know what you think! Visit spotthebaddy.com , and also make sure that you register for SpotCrime alerts!

SpotCrime is proud to announce that we're now receiving crime data from the Moline Police Department . We'll be mapping crimes for the entire metropolitan area. Check out our interactive map on the SpotCrime website at the link below. http://spotcrime.com/il/moline Did you know that you can do a keyword search on our maps? Type in any search criteria that you have (i.e., theft of property) and hit the Refresh button. You will only see crimes of that specific type. As always, SpotCrime provides free crime alerts by email and text message. On Facebook? Become a Spotcrime.com fan!

SpotCrime is now receiving crime data from the Millington Police Department . We have coverage for the entire area. Click the link below to view our interactive map. http://spotcrime.com/tn/millington As always, SpotCrime provides free crime alerts by email and text message. Stay informed about crimes happening in your neighborhood!

Now you can get hyper-local crime data on your television if you have DirecTV. SpotCrime has just launched an app delivering near real time crime data to your television with a few clicks of the remote. The application provides a crime listing of incidents in your area and a map of those incidents. Click on the image below to see instruction on adding the app to your DirecTV box:

New Castle County, Delaware is a county on the Delaware River with a population of 500,265. According to the map above the most frequent crime types in the area are burglary, theft and vandalism. To see these incidents and crime types of every variety, click the link below for a fully interactive crime map. http://spotcrime.com/de/new+castle+county As always SpotCrime provides this information to the public at no cost to the police department or the public through RSS and Twitter. Email and SMS crime alerts are also available.