SpotCrime - The Public's Crime Map

If your city isn't on the map yet, here are some reasons why you should hurry up and send your public crime data over to SpotCrime and why our maps just work: 1. It's free - free to send us data, free to map data , free to send alerts, free to sign up for alerts , free to perform detailed crime searches , free to create a crime listing ... we don't collect a dime from police departments or residents (or any tax dollars) . 2. It's an easy to use map with easily identifiable crime icons.  Our crime maps are made for the people, of the people, by the people - they are not Rube Goldberg machines and we only collect and display public information. And since each crime email alert has a personalized map included, it's super easy to forward your crime alert on to friends and family.  We sent out over 1 million SpotCrime email alerts - just last week!  Even Grandma knows how to work SpotCrime! 3.  We are pretty good at getting information out t...

SpotCrime has recently added Harris County, TX data to the map! Harris County is the fifth largest metro area in the US and holds the city of Houston .  You can view the SpotCrime Houston map here.   It is the most populated county in Texas and the third most populated county in the US! Harris County Sheriff's Office covers all unincorporated areas of the county.  The data from Harris County is from Dec2011-Jan2012.  We are working on collecting more up to date information from the Sheriff's Office in efforts to inform all Harris County residents of crime that occurs in their area. Want to see more Harris County data on SpotCrime ?   Let the Sheriff's Office know! We've found that inquiries from concerned residents go a long way.  And, if they send us data, we will map it and send residents alerts for free! Stay aware, stay safe.

SpotCrime just sent over 1 million crime alerts this week. A new record for us. That's over 140,000 alerts a day. We'd like to thank our subscribers and our supporters for helping us reach this number. By maintaining our integrity through our financial independence, SpotCrime strives to be the best at delivering timely information to the public through any and all available channels. We'd like to thank every police department that shares data with us and/or makes the data fully public without restrictions or without proprietary systems. Crime mapping is a useful tool to show crime information, but it pales in comparison to full transparency allowing the public and the press to consume, share, and publish crime data without the threat of a lawsuit. We at SpotCrime are proud of not charging any police department for our service, not billing the public for access and not taking any state or federal funds. And yet, in five short years we've become the most visited...

With today's Facebook IPO , we thought we'd take a look at how crime maps are 'liked' on the social media giant. If you look at the pie chart below of the main crime maps on the Internet right now, you can see that SpotCrime is in the lead.  Thank you for the 'likes'! SpotCrime includes our sites SpotCrime.com Facebook page and MyLocalCrime.com Facebook page 'likes'.  Check out both pages and (if you haven't already) give them a 'like' by heading here for SpotCrime and here for MyLocalCrime .  We also share lots of breaking and interesting news articles through both of our pages as well as updates about our site.  We think 'likes' show the popularity of our maps and wanted to say Thank You again for the support!

Our most common 'How to' question is how to update or change the address in your SpotCrime email alerts.  We've recently posted a video tutorial of this 'How To' on YouTube (watch full video below), but here are some written directions. 1. You will first have to sign in to your SpotCrime profile.  To do this, click 'Sign In' in the upper right hand corner of the screen at SpotCrime.com Note - even if you signed up for alerts through MyLocalCrime.com or SpotCrime.info , you will still have to sign in to your account through SpotCrime.com .  Remember, both MLC and .info are powered by SpotCrime.com 2. At the Sign In screen , enter your Username and Password and click 'Login'.  Your username is the email address that receives SpotCrime alerts.  If you don't remember your password, just click 'Forgot your Password?' link and follow the directions. 3.  After you've clicked 'Login', you will be taken back to the ...

SpotCrime is now mapping crime in Charlotte County, FL !  Charlotte County is located in south western Florida on the Gulf of Mexico.  It's situated south of Sarasota , Highlands and Desoto counties and north of Lee and Hendry counties.  Charlotte County has a population of almost 160,000 residents! SpotCrime is mapping crime data made available by the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office through their Event Report on their website.   SpotCrime has translated the text on the Event Report into a SpotCrime map - allowing anyone to visualize where and what crimes occur throughout the city.  This is a free service that SpotCrime provides to the department and residents of Charlotte County. And, as you can see from the map,  the county responds to suspicious vehicle and persons reported calls (typically appears as an 'Other' icon ).  There are also not a lot of crimes like robberies, shootings, and assaults - possibly a sign that the commu...

The more innovative and popular Apple products get, the more crimes we see surrounding their products. Check out the SpotCrime crime listing below of thefts, robberies, burglaries, and even assaults and shootings over iPhones and iPads! SpotCrime Crime Listing of iPhone and iPad thefts, burglaries, robberies, assaults, and shootings.  To view the entire crime list, click here .  To learn how to make your very own SpotCrime Crime Listing, click here . Thanks to iCloud.com and websites like Lookout , you're easily able to locate a device if lost or stolen (assuming you've registered your device with the websites) On iCloud, all you have to do to locate a device is click on the ' Find my iPhone ' link on the main page and sign in. When I used iCloud.com to locate my iPad, iCloud pinpointed the house on a Google map where my iPad was hiding.  No worries, I wasn't a victim of an iCrime and I didn't lose my iPad. I was curious to see how accurate iCloud w...