SpotCrime - The Public's Crime Map

Check out the SpotCrime Hamilton County, OH map! Hamilton County is the third most populous county in Ohio, mainly because the county seat is Cincinnati - the third most populous city in Ohio . Hamilton County population is about 802k. A screen shot of the SpotCrime Hamilton County map SpotCrime collects crime data from the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office to create crime maps and email alerts for residents. The HCSO patrols unincorporated areas of the county, including ten unincorporated townships - Anderson, Colerain, Columbia, Crosby, Green, Harrison, Miami, Sycamore, Symmes, Whitewater, and Village of North Bend. You can easily search your local township on the front page of SpotCrime . We are also collecting crime data from Cincinnati, check out the SpotCrime Cincy map here . Interested in learning about crime in your area? Head to SpotCrime or MyLocalCrime . If you're on your mobile device, use SpotCrime.info or our iPhone app . And make sure to...

Amherst, NY is located in western New York outside of Buffalo . Amherst is Buffalo's largest suburb with a population of about 122k. AMherts crime data on SpotCrime.info In 2010 and in 2011 Amherst was ranked  by CNNMoney.com as Top 100 places to live. In 2011 and 2012, the town was ranked as one of America's 100 Best Communities for Young People by America's Promise Alliance . Sounds like a great place to live! And in 2011 it was ranked 6th safest out of 400 cities by the CQPress . That's great! And now there is a SpotCrime map to help keep the residents safe. Our hope is that the more people who are aware of what's happening in their area, the safer the community will become. SpotCrime is now mapping crime information from several departments in the Amherst area including Amherst , Buffalo , North Tonawanda , Niagara County , and Cheektowaga . You can view also view all of these areas on our 'sister' site MyLocalCrime and our mobile friendly s...

SpotCrime is now mapping Bexar County, TX! SpotCrime Bexar County map zoomed out. Bexar County holds the city of San Antonio. That's why it looks like there is crime mapped in a circle - almost like the shape of a donut with a hole in the middle. Now that SpotCrime started mapping Bexar County, we are able to provide a bigger picture of crime for residents in the San Antonio area. You can view crime on the front page of SpotCrime or you can search a SpotCrime City Map. View Bexar County's SpotCrime map here . View San Antonio SpotCrime map here . If you don't prefer SpotCrime maps, make sure to check out our 'sister' site - MyLocalCrime . MLC presents the same information as SpotCrime, only in a different format. If you want to stay up to date on breaking news in the area, make sure to turn your channel to News 4 WOAI , our news partner in the area. They host SpotCrime maps on their website under their Crime Tracker section and cover local San Antonio ...

SpotCrime has started to map crime data in Dayton, Ohio ! Dayton, OH on SpotCrime.com The Dayton Police Department pushes crime information to the public via their own website. SpotCrime uses that information to map Dayton. Why map the crime data on our map too you ask? SpotCrime has over half a million subscribers . That's roughly more than 5 million email alerts we send out on a monthly basis to our subscribers. We figure the more eyes we can get on the crime, the safer the communities will become! So go ahead, check out the Dayton PD website and SpotCrime. Figure out which one you like best. Just remember, it doesn't matter which map and alerts you prefer, just as long as you share the information with your neighbors. Stay aware, stay safe!

Recently the Benton County Sheriff (Arkansas) announced a new public  crime map . Local news OzarksFirst.com reported that the map was paid for by a $15,000 grant. Not a large sum, and often crime mapping vendors have similar contact costs charging $150 a month for public crime mapping services. Using a simple discounted cash flow valuation of a police agency contract at $1,800 a year at a 10% discount rate, you'll get a total valuation of the vendor mapping contract at $18,000 (divide 10% into $1,800). Very similar to the amount paid by Benton. We have seen some agencies pay larger sums for public crime mapping. Most notably, Seattle Police Department spent approximately $350,000 for their public mapping system. So how do we get to $180 million in savings? Since we are using back of the envelope numbers, we are going to be very conservative in our estimated costs. We'll use an approximate cost of $10,000 per police agency for public crime mapping. ...

View the map at SpotCrime.com , SpotCrime.info , or the SpotCrime Salt Lake City Map Salt Lake City, UT  is now on  SpotCrime ! We applaud the Salt Lake Police Department for making their Calls for Service log available in an open source format. The webpage gives users the ability to view and sort the information. After 48 hours, the calls will be archived and will still be viewable at the data.slcgov.com website here The new webpage is run internally by the department, not an outside vendor. This is a great step in the right direction for government transparency with the public. The new webpage will easily allow both public and press to view, use, and share the information  without the threat of a lawsuit . Our hope is the release of this data will make more people aware - and hopefully more people will be able to do interesting and innovative things with the data. Check out the YouTube video below Chief Burbank's announcement...

Have you ever heard one of those Emergency Alert System messages while listening to the radio or watching TV? In my local area, they do these kinds of messages whenever there is an Amber Alert or a flash flood warning or any other sudden or severe weather warnings. These tests are set up to make sure the stations can get proper information to viewers in case of an emergency. They are controlled by the Emergency Alert System which sends a message to all TV stations letting them know what to broadcast. Think of all of the viewers for one TV station. Pretty powerful tool, huh? What if one day that tool malfunctioned? Well it did, in 1971. A worker at CONELRAD (now known as the Emergency Alert System)  sent the wrong message to all of the stations. Read more about the debacle here . The incorrect message was sent out, causing stations to stop TV and radio shows in order to wait for a message from the President. There was no emergency, but the stations didn't figure out the messa...