SpotCrime - The Public's Crime Map

Thanks to the JSO, we've recently added more data to our SpotCrime Jacksonville map. Check out the map here http://spotcrime.com/fl/jacksonville Wondering were the most shootings occur in the city?  Check out the SpotCrime heat map.  There is more 'heat' where the shootings occur. SpotCrime Jacksonville Heat Map Zoomed in and with pushpins showing, you can see exactly where the shootings occur. SpotCrime Jacksonville Heat map with pushpins Looks like the center of the city is a place where a lot of shootings occur (assuming that more people live in the center of the city, this is normal) and the south and north sides look less violent.  Other areas that you should be aware of are circled below -- south west of the center around Normandy Blvd, south east of the city around Spring Park and east of the city between the Arlington Expressway and Atlantic Blvd. Other high shooting rate areas Sign up for you local crime alerts at SpotCrime or MyLocalCri

Here are some instructions that show you how to narrow your crime data search by date on our interactive maps. On the homepage , select the state that you want to search from the dropdown menu on the top right-hand side of the page. Once you've selected the state that you want, hit Go. I'm going to do a date range search in Jacksonville, Florida. Once you hit Go, a list of Florida cities are available to select from. To view the interactive map for Jacksonville, click Jacksonville Crime Map. As you can see, the interactive maps look a bit different from the map on the homepage. There are several features that allow you to narrow down your data search, including date ranges. I'm going to search all available data for the dates of April 25th-May 2nd, 2011. Select the from date and the to date, then hit Refresh Map. Once the map is refreshed, only the crimes that fall within the dates of April 25th and May 2nd appear.

Jacksonville, Florida is the county seat of Duval County, Florida. It is also the largest city in Florida with a population of 1,313,228. Please click the link below for a fully interactive crime map detailing all the crimes occurring in the Jacksonville area. http://spotcrime.com/fl/jacksonville 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.