SpotCrime - The Public's Crime Map

SpotCrime has been trying to collect crime data from Jersey City , population 247k, since we first started mapping crime nationwide. We found Jersey City calls for service on the Jersey City open data portal last week and immediately loaded the information to SpotCrime. Check it out here. When we checked today for more data, we found the open data link no longer displays the feed. Perhaps Jersey City saw the positive feedback from the NYPD Crime map and decided to post crime data. We're hoping decision's like NYPD's to release crime data (even though we weren't completely satisfied with their map) help encourage other cities to release crime data. Or maybe it was a move by the new mayor, police chief, and pubic safety director. In a lot of cities, the Mayor sometimes has a role in decisions made by the Chief of Police, including wether or not they stay around. Former Chief Tom Comey retired shortly after Former Mayor Jerrimiah Healy lost the mayoral race

We’ve hit a new milestone after 6 years at this crime mapping business. We had over 1 million unique visitors to SpotCrime websites last month! One million visitors strong to a more informed and safer community. Thank you! This is another notch of achievement added to our mission of keeping the public informed with timely, relevant, informative, and useful crime information. We believe this number to be larger than all the other crime mapping companies combined, and note - we have never charged a police agency a penny. We’d like to thank some agencies for recently having the courage to move to an open data format for crime data. Being fully open with the public is a big step, and recent agencies that deserve attention are: Salt Lake City . Based on experience, we never thought any agency in Utah would be open with their crime data. Thanks for bucking the trend, Salt Lake! Alameda County, CA . The Sheriff’s office recently moved from a proprietary to open display of crime d

The SpotCrime iPhone application is available at the iTunes store for the following areas: San Fransisco Chicago Baltimore New York City London But what if you live in a city outside of these five regions and want to know what's going on around you? You can still access some of our SpotCrime data through Google Maps on the iPhone. Simply type SpotCrime and your location in the Google Maps search and watch the crime incidents appear before your eyes. Click for an example in Philadelphia, PA Crime incident listings are also available once you search SpotCrime and your city on Google Maps through RSS feeds. Click here for another Philadelphia example As always, SpotCrime provides free crime alerts by email and text messages. Know your neighborhood with SpotCrime.com

The crimes you see collected at the bottom left hand corner of this map are of SoHo; a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan . SoHo is renowned for it's artistic studios and residents, cast-iron architecture, many shops and resturants and it's interesting nightlife. SpotCrime is proud to feature SoHo as a section on our Manhattan neighborhood maps. Please click on the following link to see a fully interactive crime map. http://spotcrime.com/ny/manhattan/soho You can also access the latest SoHo crimes on our maps via iPhone using the SpotCrime New York iPhone application available at the iTunes store. As always, SpotCrime provides free crime alerts by email and text messages. Know your neighborhood with SpotCrime.com

Find up to date crime information in New York City using SpotCrime's iPhone app. This useful application will keep you informed and up to date about what is going on around you. Are you on Water St with an iPhone in your hand? Do you want to know about the closest reported crimes to your location? Check out SpotCrime New York City at the Apple App Store.

SpotCrime crime database for New York City, New York from January 2009 to May 2009 for Robberies, Theft, and Burglary: While we recieve information from the other boroughs in the city, based on our data it seems that most of these crimes are located in Manhattan.