SpotCrime - The Public's Crime Map

SpotCrime is introducing the MyLocalCrime mobile application to the Google Play and iTunes app stores. The MyLocalCrime app puts crime information at the public’s fingertips by displaying nationwide crime data mapped to the block level and a nationwide most wanted database . It also includes a free crime tipping service for the public and police agencies. A cold case database will be added in early 2020. MyLocalCrime allows users to obtain detailed crime descriptions and seamlessly share crime-related information with others via text, email, and a number of social media platforms. The app includes a map with verified incident-based crime data down to the street level. Most wanted criminals are displayed in an area, based on the user’s location.  The data on MyLocalCrime is collected from more than 1,000 police agencies, including the 100 most populated cities in the U.S., and is frequently updated. Each data point includes a source back to the police agency from which th

Checking out a new restaurant in the city? Are your kids going to a new neighborhood to visit friends? Traveling to a new city for vacation or work? Buying a house? Starting a community watch group?   It's now easier than ever to stay up to date on police activity and crime near your most important locations with our new Android app for our sister website, MyLocalCrime.  Download the app for free from the google play store here: http://bit.ly/MLCappAndroid We've added a ‘favorite addresses’ feature making it more convenient for you to access information on crimes like shootings robberies, assaults, burglaries, arrests, thefts, vandalisms, and arsons around multiple addresses. If you like the app, make sure to leave a review. And, don’t forget to sign up for free daily and weekly crime alerts! Safety begins with knowing.

Roseburg, OR is located in the Pacific North West of the US. It's the county seat of Douglas County and has a population of over 21k, a suitable population for a city that's only about 10 square miles in size. Check out the Roseburg SpotCrime map below. Most incidents are arrests made by the police department for warrants. Roseburg, OR SpotCrime map The city can be found off of I-5 and route 99, south of Eugene and north of Medford . Roseburg is located on the Umpqua River Valley, making it an ideal location for many vineyards and wine tasting. It is the birthplace of the Oregon Pinot Noir. The town is also where the current governor of Oregon - Governor Ted Kulongoski - practiced medicine from 1973 to 1986 where we was an emergency room physician. Gov. Kulongoski is currently serving his third term as Oregon's Governor. In 2012, Rolling Stone Magazine name him one of "The Quiet Ones: 12 Leaders Who Get Things Done". Roseburg is also home to the fo

Check out the SpotCrime Hamilton County, OH map! Hamilton County is the third most populous county in Ohio, mainly because the county seat is Cincinnati - the third most populous city in Ohio . Hamilton County population is about 802k. A screen shot of the SpotCrime Hamilton County map SpotCrime collects crime data from the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office to create crime maps and email alerts for residents. The HCSO patrols unincorporated areas of the county, including ten unincorporated townships - Anderson, Colerain, Columbia, Crosby, Green, Harrison, Miami, Sycamore, Symmes, Whitewater, and Village of North Bend. You can easily search your local township on the front page of SpotCrime . We are also collecting crime data from Cincinnati, check out the SpotCrime Cincy map here . Interested in learning about crime in your area? Head to SpotCrime or MyLocalCrime . If you're on your mobile device, use SpotCrime.info or our iPhone app . And make sure to

SpotCrime has started to map crime data in Dayton, Ohio ! Dayton, OH on SpotCrime.com The Dayton Police Department pushes crime information to the public via their own website. SpotCrime uses that information to map Dayton. Why map the crime data on our map too you ask? SpotCrime has over half a million subscribers . That's roughly more than 5 million email alerts we send out on a monthly basis to our subscribers. We figure the more eyes we can get on the crime, the safer the communities will become! So go ahead, check out the Dayton PD website and SpotCrime. Figure out which one you like best. Just remember, it doesn't matter which map and alerts you prefer, just as long as you share the information with your neighbors. Stay aware, stay safe!

BALTIMORE, MD (12/11/12) --- SpotCrime – the most comprehensive online source for crime data – has surpassed 500,000 subscribers just prior to the end of 2012, making the Baltimore-based company the most visited crime mapping site in the world. “Nearly 55 percent of online users looking for incident details and crime mapping information now turn to SpotCrime,” says the company’s Founder and President, Colin Drane.  “That’s more than double our nearest competitor and has resulted in SpotCrime sending an average of 165,000 crime alert emails per day or more than five million email alerts monthly.” In addition, SpotCrime has become the most liked crime map on Facebook, garnering more than 70 percent of Facebook “likes.” The company anticipates those numbers will increase in the future due to recent expansions of its partnerships with two of the country’s largest media companies, Sinclair and Gannett. Those partnerships mean that television stations in 15 additional markets  throug

In this post, I’d like to talk about the limitations of public crime maps and quasi-public-proprietary crime maps.   Don’t get me wrong, we at SpotCrime are fans of crime maps .  They are an effective tool to represent crime data and get information to the public.  But, crime maps are just one of many options of delivering useful crime data to the public. Maps in general will always have some type of dimensional limitations.  No matter how you adjust the parameters of time and distance with data on a map, it will still be just an incremental snapshot of the data set.   With crime data, if you take a too small snapshot and an area can appear to have no crime.  Take a too large of a snapshot and amount of crime data could crowd the map, show too much crime, and render the map unreadable.  Heat maps are sometimes employed to show density of data on a map, but these too have their own adjustable variances that can influence what is being projected.    Ultimately, the same limitations of a

SpotCrime alerts sent have surpassed the 30 million mark!  Thank you for signing up for SpotCrime alerts and all of your feedback, it has helped us reach this stepping stone! Each email alert includes a map of crime and a list of crime details that have occurred around an address specified by a user.   Some alerts include a local sponsor ad, local news station logo and/or a highlighted news story. So, unless there is more than one person at an address signed up for an alert (i.e. apartment or business building), most of the 30 m alerts have all been unique - like a snowflake!  Not signed up for alerts?  Head to SpotCrime or MyLocalCrime to sign up!  Check out this blog post for a step by step process on how to sign up. Stay aware, stay safe!

Pasco County, FL is one of the largest growing areas in the US, growing approx 105k residents since 2000. The population is now approx 462,700. The county is considered part of the Tampa-St Pete-Clearwater metro area and holds Dade City as it's county seat. Zephyrhills is a city in Pasco County as well as a popular water company (owned by Nestle) that is headquartered in in the county. By using the handy search area on SpotCrime, try selecting only the 'burglary' icon. You can see that a number of burglaries have recently occurred along the west coast of the county. Checking out local news sources you'll find that just in April, 12 men faced federal charges in relation to a burglary ring . Back in May, there was a recent arrests of 'Bonnie and Clyde' in Pasco County for burglarizing cars. Residents should take better measures when protecting their homes! Lock all doors (at all times!), install a security system, be careful of the information you

SpotCrime is now mapping Lexington, NC, the 'Barbecue Capital of the World' (not to be confused with our Lexington, KY--the 'Horse Capital of the World' map) Lexington has a population of approximately 20k and can be found south of Winston-Salem, NC in Davidson County. The southwest side of this quaint suburb appears to be the area with little amounts of police/criminal activity. Sign up for email alerts in your Lexington, NC area by heading to SpotCrime.com. Get a quick view of crime in your area at MyLocalCrime.com. Stay safe!

Violence seems to be the answer for residents in the Windy City of Chicago. If you check only the 'shootings' icon on the SpotCrime map for the past month, your results will prove to be very alarming. Brought to attention from Chicago affiliate WGN , the city experienced 42 shootings since 7 PM Friday this past weekend. This comes to an average of 11 shootings a day in the past month, including a 1 year old who was shot in the shoulder Sunday evening. Google search the words "Chicago Shooting" and you won't come up empty handed. You'll find another story, among dozens, that trumps this past weekend--50 shootings over Father's Day weekend of this year. The majority of those shootings occurred on the South and West sides and are reported to be gang related. Chicago has recently lifted their hand gun ban by a Supreme court ruling in the McDonald v. Chicago case. Stay alert, stay protected and stay informed. Steer clear of violent areas (keep your child

The MyLocalCrime Crime Map is an alternative and faster way to view crime data and get information around a specific address. The map pinpoints a specific address and shows crime data around that address. This allows a viewer to see a more localized and recent information for the specified area. Google maps are still used, however, the icon structure is different. Simple symbols represent each crime instead of pictures. If you hover over a crime, you can view the details and information. You can also find information below the map. Compared to SpotCrime, MyLocalCrime uses a more simple approach to get crime information out to citizens. If you are trying to do a more complex crime search, SpotCrime may be a better option, but for a quick view, MyLocalCrime works best. MyLocalCrime works with most browsers to determine your location instantly so in most cases you aren't required to put in an address to view information! Of course, a different address can still be viewed by usi