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SpotCrime Surpasses 1 Million Subscribers!

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Thanks for helping us reach 1 million subscribers! It only took us eight years! But, 1 million subscribers, 200 million crime alerts annually, and over 40 million people interacting with SpotCrime data monthly continues to make us the largest crime alerting system in the US and the most visited crime mapping website in the world!  We attribute our growth to the fact that we are the only independent, open crime data company that is self-supporting - we have not taken any outside funding and have never charged police departments for the information we provide.  Our sole intent is to make all relevant crime information available to the public, taking full advantage of the Internet to allow this data to be shared and ultimately driving both greater awareness and new measures that will lead to a reduction in crime. The open crime data we distribute for free to users across the world creates a level of transparency with citizens and public officials that increases both trust an