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Smaller Departments Have the Ability to Create and Maintain Their Own SpotCrime Map!

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You can find a police department in pretty much every city in the US, no matter how large or small.  Each of those departments work 24/7 to keep their residents safe.  That's 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, through thick and thin, rain, shine, sleet, snow, ice...you get the idea. Departments are working every day to create tools and programs that will help keep their communities safe.  However, for some smaller cities and departments, this may be a hard task to undertake.  They may not have the technology or capital required to create and innovate in order to keep communities informed and safe...or so they thought.  Enter SpotCrime. SpotCrime is offering access to the Chiefs or Sheriffs of many smaller departments to map their own crime on the SpotCrime website!  Instead of paying for the technology to generate reports, the department can map the information themselves -- for free!  The population of most towns who are granted this access is normally under 10,000.  With access,