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One Million Strong. Thank You!

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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