SpotCrime - The Public's Crime Map

SpotCrime - the most visited crime mapping website and most comprehensive online source for crime data - is introducing SpotCrime Catapult, a free software solution that allows police departments worldwide to make their crime data public. Catapult was created by SpotCrime developers and enables any police department to export public crime data from their records management system. In addition to the free software, SpotCrime is also offering any police department that, on or before December 31, 2013, implements Catapult and makes their crime data available to the public, up to $2,000 in reimbursement to defray costs of implementation. Alternatively, SpotCrime is willing to itself provide the technical services to help implement the software. The offer is subject to more detailed terms and conditions set forth here http://bit.ly/131j4xg . “With open data initiatives rolling out everywhere, SpotCrime wants to make it easy for police departments to release their crime data and