Crime data transparency Ranking - 50 US Cities
SpotCrime has graded 50 US cities on how transparent they are with crime data. A 2 grade is an ‘A+, you are awesome!’ - the city is open with their crime data, meaning it follows this criteria: Fair and equal access to the data; there are no restrictions on use or sharing of the information It’s free; no registrations, licenses, fees, etc are associated with the information It’s available in machine readable format or a format capable of automating Information is timely and up to date A 1 grade is an ‘OK, but you can do better’ - the city may publish some sort of crime data feed, but it’s: Incomplete (missing part of a location, missing time, etc) Out of date (In some cases up to date information is only given to a preferred vendor and everyone else has to wait up to a week to receive similar information) The information is in a really hard to read format (.pdf, fax, snail mail, word doc) A 0 grade is a ‘See me after class and you may get detention for a semester’. Th...