SpotCrime - The Public's Crime Map

Check out your SpotCrime Scottsdale crime map ! Scottsdale is located just outside of Phoenix, AZ in Maricopa County . The city has a population of over 217k, making it Arizona's sixth largest city. In addition to Phoenix, Scottsdale is bordered by Tempe , Paradise Valley , and Fountain Hills . According to our Trulia widget, the media cost of a home in Scottsdale currently is $549k! With help from our local media partner, KTVK AZFamily.com , we'll be updating the maps weekly. We're happy that the Scottsdale PD has the courage to be open and transparent with their crime data. Transparency and unrestricted access to public crime data is a great way to keep the public informed and aware of what's going on in their area. Want to get your department on board? Have them contact us . Interested in checking out informative, local, and relevant news in the Phoenix area? AZFamily  provides informative stories in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area. When there was a double shooti...

Houma, LA is on SpotCrime! Houma is located in southern Louisiana in the Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux metro area in Terrebonne Parish with a population over over 33k. The city is primarily Cajun culture and tradition, and like any city near New Orleans, is known for its Mardi Gras festivities. It was also the setting of the Swamp Thing comic books and The Skeleton Key movie. Interested in crime happening in Houma ? Check out  SpotCrime.com , the most visited crime mapping site on the Internet. Or you can head to  MyLocalCrime , which will render crime in your area faster than any other crime map out there! On your mobile? View crime easily on any mobile browser by heading to  SpotCrime.info . Don't forget to sign up for your  free personalized local crime alert . We'll deliver you a crime map directly to your email address whenever we map crime in the radius you specify. Stay aware, stay safe!

SpotCrime is now mapping Bexar County, TX! SpotCrime Bexar County map zoomed out. Bexar County holds the city of San Antonio. That's why it looks like there is crime mapped in a circle - almost like the shape of a donut with a hole in the middle. Now that SpotCrime started mapping Bexar County, we are able to provide a bigger picture of crime for residents in the San Antonio area. You can view crime on the front page of SpotCrime or you can search a SpotCrime City Map. View Bexar County's SpotCrime map here . View San Antonio SpotCrime map here . If you don't prefer SpotCrime maps, make sure to check out our 'sister' site - MyLocalCrime . MLC presents the same information as SpotCrime, only in a different format. If you want to stay up to date on breaking news in the area, make sure to turn your channel to News 4 WOAI , our news partner in the area. They host SpotCrime maps on their website under their Crime Tracker section and cover local San Antonio ...

When you think of WalMart, do you typically think of crime? Just Google 'WalMart crime' and you'll pull up a number of website and stories with crimes that have occurred in and around Walmart. Here is a screenshot of a SpotCrime crime list of a few WalMart crimes Scary? Or typical? To put things in perspective, there are about 629 WalMarts and 3,029 super-center Walmarts in the US today.  Each WalMart employs about 225-350 associates and the size of the average store is approximately 108,000-185,000 square feet. If you were to place all of the WalMarts in the US in one city, it would cover about 22 square miles (that's not even not including parking lots) a size equivalent to cities like Longmont, CO and Madera, CA .  However, the employee population of the WalMart city would much larger than Longmont or Madera, it would be approximately 1, 201,675  people - about the same size as Dallas, TX or San Diego, CA - and that doesn't include the customers! E...

As of this morning, SpotCrime has reached over 300, 000 subscribers!  On average, we send 3.5 million crime alerts monthly! Since we've launched, we've realized that the greatest value of mapping crime is the network of people who view and interact with the data.  With our media partners , and multiple websites , we estimate over 6 million people interact with our data monthly. If no one views a crime map, what's it's worth? The more people aware of what's occurring in their community, the higher chance the community is proactive in the fight against crime.  Our ultimate goal is that SpotCrime effectively distributes crime data across the world, decreasing the crime rate and increasing a peace of mind. Are you signed up for your local SpotCrime alert yet?  Each email alert is made custom for each subscriber.  When you sign up for an alert, you can put in your address and a radius of choice.  So, unless there are subscribers with the same address ...

Wondering how to get your police agency's crime data on SpotCrime ?  Well, if you have a computer, you can have a crime map.  No department is too small (or too big) for us to get on the map! SpotCrime offers free mapping and public distribution systems at no cost to police departments.  We have a news model with advertising which means we are never looking to upsell our products at a later date. The crime maps include useful features like the hourly updates to the map, date range search, crime type search, keyword search, a 'quick view' of crime in your area (via MyLocalCrime ) and, of course, free crime alerts for residents.  The crime alerts can be sent by email and/or SMS. Here are a few simple steps to see your city on SpotCrime. First, send us an email to feedback@spotcrime.com .  Let us know you'd like us to make a crime map for your area.  Make sure to provide your contact information and the police agency you are with.  We should c...

The term 'flash mob' was coined back in 2003 and has been used to describe a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place (normally a mall or food court) to sing or dance and then disperse suddenly. If you aren't familiar with the modern day  flash mob , I recommend a quick YouTube search or check out the video below. It can be pretty cool to get stuck in the middle of one. Recently and rather quickly, it appears the modern day flash mob has mutated into a 'flash rob' .  Flash robs occur when groups of 10 or more people suddenly begin terrorizing businesses, store employees and average Joe's and then disperse suddenly, before police can arrive.  These flash mobs are not very fun if you find yourself in the middle of one. Most of theses flash mobs have been targeting retail or convenient stores.  The mobs are able to make off with more loot in faster time than the normal criminal.  The mobs are normally...