SpotCrime - The Public's Crime Map

Amazon has narrowed down the locations for their second headquarters to a list of 20 finalists  out of the 238 cities and regions that applied. The winning city could get up to 50,000 high-paying jobs and $5 billion in investment, boosting the local economy. Amazon's requirements were metropolitan areas with a population greater than one million and the ability to attract and keep strong technical talent.  SpotCrime is mapping crime in almost every major city in the US. We took a look at the 20 finalists  to see if we were mapping crime in cities appealing to Amazon.  We are aggregating good data from all by 1 city! This is good for Amazon - we believe a city with great police data transparency means better community relations and an open feedback loop. Cities who are transparent with crime data are typically transparent with other types of data, like transit or financial data, which can make addressing the growing pains that come with building their a mas...

Montreal Burglaries March 24-31 SpotCrime is now mapping Montreal burglary data! Right now, the city has only published data up to March of this year and is working on releasing more crime types so we are keeping an eye on updates for you. In addition to releasing crime data, Montreal will begin testing body cameras on police officers this year. Montreal is a city located in the Quebec province of Canada. It’s the second largest city in Canada (after Toronto ) and the largest city in Quebec with a population over 1.6 million. French is the city’s official language. A cool thing about Montreal crime data is SpotCrime is now mapping crime in English and French! It’s promising to see more agencies across the world becoming more open and transparent with crime data. SpotCrime also maps crime data in the UK , other parts of Canada, and parts of Australia. Want crime mapped in your country? Let us know !

This week we've been working on re-establishing open crime data in Toronto, Ontario, Canada . The Toronto PD turned off their easily and freely accessible crime data feed. We've received word that the police thought it provided and inaccurate picture of crime data in the city. However, their current way to inform citizens of crime is pretty dismal. Currently, the only way to see crime data in Toronto is to create and sign in to a news release account on the police department's website. You can sign up to receive the news releases via email, which is what we've done and what we'll be mapping in the meantime. Unfortunately, we've found that some of the news releases read more like a Buzzfeed clickbait soap opera than a news story.  Why not include all of the details in an email? Especially when not everyone can make it to a press conference or catch the press conference on TV? This is bad news because now the police have slowed down and almost completel...

These maps are of Toronto from July to September in 2008. The first is of all the crimes that took place, the second is of all the robberies and the third is of all the robberies that took place near the universities. To see these maps on Spotcrime, go to: http://spotcrime.com/on/toronto . All crimes: Robberies: Robberies in university district: