Removing Crimes from SpotCrime
We rarely remove crimes from SpotCrime . Our general premise is that once they are made public, they should be public for everyone. We do remove crimes that have been mapped incorrectly - which is a topic for another post, but suffice to say, when our computers locate a crime on the wrong street and we discover it - the crime is immediately corrected or removed. Over the weekend we removed three types of crimes that later did not fit our mission of notifying the public of crime events. The first was a reported abduction in Coeur d'Alene Idaho . Someone reported a child getting off a bicycle, leaving the bicycle and getting into a van. We mapped the crime immediately, but later the Coeur d'Alene police indicated it was a false alarm on their Facebook Page . We don't often map crimes in Coeur d'Alene because police department has chosen a proprietary system that blocks the press from access. We feel this...