SpotCrime - The Public's Crime Map

Do you lock up? 1. Are your doors locked while you are in the house? 2. Is your front door locked while you are in the backyard (and vice versa)? 3. Do you lock your doors when you leave the house for even a few minutes? 4. Do you pin your windows when you leave your house? 5. Are your basement windows locked or permanently secured with screws or bars? 6. Do you keep your garage doors closed and locked at all times? Does your home look occupied? 1. When you are gone for the evening, do you leave an outdoor and an indoor light on? 2. Do you leave a radio, TV, etc., on when your home is not occupied at night or d uring the day? 3. Wh en you go on vacation do you: • Have a neighbor watch your h ouse ? • Move drapes, shades, and

The company: 1. Is the alarm company licensed in your town (if applicable)? 2. How long has the company been in business? 3. What is the alarm background of their installers? 4. Do they have staff available 24 hours a day in case of false alarms? 5. Can they work with you on getting a cut in your insurance premiums if you install one of their alarm systems? 6. Do you lease the equipment, or can you buy it outright? 7. If you buy it outright, for how long is the equipment guaranteed? 8. Do they sell maintenance contracts? 9. Is the company a member of any local business or merchant’s group? 10. Will the company pay the fee for False Alarms charges incurred when it is due to malfunction of the system itself? Will they put this in writing? The equipment: 1. Is the equipment approved by Underwriters Laboratory (UL)? 2. Is the system ele

08.04.2009 – BALTIMORE, MD - TV broadcast company Newport Television and SpotCrime, a data and news company that maps crime worldwide, will partner to provide local crime data to the public via stations the company owns in 22 markets nationwide. The partnership marks the second major announcement in as many weeks for SpotCrime, the largest company in the world reporting and mapping crime via the Internet. SpotCrime recently agreed to provide local crime data to four television and cable stations owned by Belo, one of the country’s largest pure-play, publicly-traded television companies. Newport Television, which acquired Clear Channel Television in March 2008, owns 50 television stations in 22 markets across the country, as well as Inergize Digital, the leader in fully integrated digital management solutions that generate revenue for local media companies. SpotCrime will provide crime data for Newport-owned stations in Albany, NY (www.fox23news.com), Bakersfield, CA (www.kget.com), Be

The crime maps above depict areas of intensity commonly known as heat maps. The data used to create these maps is the last one hundred reported shootings in San Antonio. Based on other crime maps done by SpotCrime , these maps seem to have more areas of intensity than others. Bright yellow areas are the hottest areas for shootings or the highest areas of concentration of shootings in San Antonio. Both maps are using the same data. The map with the push pins is showing the specific shootings mapped by SpotCrime to generate the heat map.

SpotCrime has recently added significant more data to our Houston Crime map below. Historically, the Houston Police Department was providing data one month behind the current month. They have just started to make the crime data available on a daily basis. Once the data become more current, the news reported data is crowed out by other less newsworthy crimes (thefts and burglaries). SpotCrime is still collecting reported shootings in Houston, and we have provided a heat map that shows the concentration of where the shootings happen in the city.

The heat map below shows the concentration of the last 100 shootings in Omaha recorded by SpotCrime.com. Bright yellow areas show high concentration of shooting activity. Heat maps are just one way to portray data on a map. To see the underlying shooting data for Omaha on SpotCrime, de-select all other crimes and hit the refresh button. A link to the Omaha crime map is here. http://spotcrime.com/ne/omaha

The two maps below depict shooting hot spots in Baltimore using HeatMaps Api application. Bright yellow areas are areas of high intensity or heat or where there is a higher concentration of shootings. The first crime map is without the pushpin data and the second shows the underlying shooting data that created the intensity. And the final map is a combined push pin/ heatmap of the shootings in Annapolis. It is interesting to note the areas of concentration from an earlier heat map done in March. Link Here Below is a similar crime heat map created with recent shootings in Annapolis: