SpotCrime - The Public's Crime Map

ABQ wants out of DOJ agreement, homeowners patrolling own neighborhoods, turning to data to predict and reduce crime, looking at substance abuse in prison, crime at Walmart, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Reorganizing St. Louis police department gets support from union, opposition from chief  (St Louis Post Dispatch) Schenectady Police working to adjust to new criminal justice reform laws  (CBS6) Albuquerque wants release from part of DOJ agreement  (Albuquerque Journal) Denver Public Safety Director Troy Riggs Resigns After Leading Major Shift In Approach To Crime  (CBS Denver) Grand jury indicts former Houston PD officers for alleged involvement in Harding Street raid  (KHOU) CRIME RATE North Austin homeowners patrolling neighborhood after increase in break-ins  (KXAN) Insys Therapeutics executive sentenced to 3 years in prison for lying about opioid addiction  (ABC News) ‘Drastic decrease:’ Milwaukee’s police chief touts reduction in ...

Analytics help police, risk based policing decreases crime, fighting gangs with tech, nonfatal shooting data and more... POLICE CONDUCT New DNA law leading to more matches, including a break in a rape case  (WTHR) Modernizing Crime Statistics: New Systems for Measuring Crime  (TheGovLab) Gilbert: Law enforcement agencies notified Wilkes-Barre police chief altered reports  (Times-Leader) Sacramento police unveil body cam policy after protests  (SacBee) Violent Acts in Public Places Fuel Interest in Secure Design  (Route Fifty) Analytics help city police connect the dots across databases  (GCN.com) Criminal-Justice Officials Should Stand Up to Mental-Health Officials  (National Review) see also:  Woman who helped dramatically reduce youth murders in Scotland urges London to treat violence as a 'disease'  (The Independent) CRIME RATE Atlantic City's violent crime decreases with risk-based policing initiative  (Pressof...

Nextdoor is a private social networking website for neighbors. Crime is a popular topic among neighbors on the site - approximately  1 in 6 posts created on Nextdoor are about crime . Here is how you can share SpotCrime on Nextdoor: 1. Figure out the SpotCrime URL you’d like to share: Do you want to share a map location? Head to the front page of SpotCrime, type in your location, click ‘search’. A brand new URL should appear for you in the address bar of your browser. Copy this URL. Example:  https://spotcrime.com/#300%20e%20lombard%20st%2C%20baltimore%2C%20md Do you want to share a specific crime? Click on the icon on the SpotCrime map and then click on ‘View Details’ OR click on the crime in the crime list below the map. A new page should appear for you with more information on the crime. Copy this URL. Example:  https://spotcrime.com/crime/84931219-1a82891338eae1271828b40002cf2e53 Do you want to share your email alert? In your email, click on ‘View...

Sioux City, IA is located in western Iowa on the Missouri River with a population of about 83k residents. The city is split between two counties - Plymouth and Woodbury - and also borders two states - Nebraska and South Dakota . We started mapping Sioux City after it was brought to our attention that recent shootings spurred an interest in reactivating neighborhood watch groups again. Since SpotCrime is the most visited crime mapping site and we're the only crime mapping site to offer actual maps in our email alerts , we started mapping the city hoping it would help facilitate a connection between the community and police department. Sioux City's level of transparency with public crime data exceeds those of many larger cities in the US. They provide an open data feed that doesn't restrict access or the ability to share the information. When you see cities like Charlotte Las Vegas both with populations 9 and 7 times the size of Sioux City respectively, it shows th...

Starting a neighborhood watch may not seem as daunting a task as it sounds. We’ve learned from interaction with our subscribers over the past couple years that all you need are interested and informed neighbors. All it takes is one organized and motivated person to make a community watch successful. In fact, in one community, we’ve encountered one resident forwarding on our SpotCrime email alerts to over 100 neighbors. Amazing! Here are some suggestions and tips we’ve come up with when trying to create your own neighborhood watch of your own. we have to creating your own neighborhood watch Collect names, email addresses, phone numbers, and addresses of neighbors interested in participating. Knowing where your neighbors live will help you learn the boundaries of your watch. Establish a line of communication. We’ve seen anything as technical as a neighborhood watch website to Facebook groups and pages , Yahoo! Groups , Google Groups , all of the way to something as ...