Different Dimensions of SpotCrime Crime Mapping
This week we've been working on re-establishing open crime data in Toronto, Ontario, Canada . The Toronto PD turned off their easily and freely accessible crime data feed. We've received word that the police thought it provided and inaccurate picture of crime data in the city. However, their current way to inform citizens of crime is pretty dismal. Currently, the only way to see crime data in Toronto is to create and sign in to a news release account on the police department's website. You can sign up to receive the news releases via email, which is what we've done and what we'll be mapping in the meantime. Unfortunately, we've found that some of the news releases read more like a Buzzfeed clickbait soap opera than a news story. Why not include all of the details in an email? Especially when not everyone can make it to a press conference or catch the press conference on TV? This is bad news because now the police have slowed down and almost completel...