SpotCrime - The Public's Crime Map

The crime mapping space in the business world is a small space. But for those who do seek out crime information, more people go to SpotCrime than anywhere else. Here is where we are by the numbers: Emails We are projected to send out over 125 million emails this year alone. That’s 125,000,000 alerts that are individually tailored to each user and delivered directly into their personal mailbox.  Apps We are the only company to have a crime map for the Kindle Fire in addition to Android and iPhone . SpotCrime.info is mobile friendly and works great on any browser. Web traffic (from Similarweb.com ) SpotCrime trumps in web traffic. We are almost twice the size of all other major crime mapping websites combined in December! Socially we’ve looked at the game a little differently than other crime mapping sites. Instead of posting about our own successes and daily happenings, we push out as much crime information to social platforms used by millions of people in

Every police agency has options on how to bring crime information to the public. For example,  the AMBER Alert tool is almost universally used. The idea is that if a child is taken an alert is sent to anyone and everyone so the quicker the information gets to the public the better of saving the child and reducing harm to the child. (EDIT: A couple of days after we published this post, Facebook announced their AMBER Alert program !) Not all crime events can have the same urgency as an AMBER alert - there's a huge difference between the robbery around the corner and an AMBER alert - but why should your access to these two pieces of information be different. All crime information can have the same level of openness - meaning the ability of the press and the public to use, share, and distribute the information is equal. Police agencies have varying degrees of sharing crime data. We've summed them up into four: 1. Agencies don't share much at all. The occa

Tis the season to rank the best Christmas movies! Below are our 10 personal Christmas favorites. And, since we map crime on the reg, we’ve included a crime map for each city the movie takes place. A Christmas Carol Bah Humbug!  Ebenezer Scrooge should be arrested for the way he’s treated friends, family, and employees! A great holiday movie to make you realize what Christmas is really about. Crime map of assaults in London, England Bad Santa Hey, can I get another drink down here? This isn’t a very cheery movie, but since the police are very apparent in this black comedy we’ve included it in our list. Billie Bob Thorton is a very, very bad Santa who uses his Santa suit as a way to steal from stores during the holiday season.  Map of crime in Phoenix, AZ The Santa Clause Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night! When I get home, I'm getting a CAT scan! Scott Calvin’s transformation from an average guy to THE Santa Claus gets him ar

Let's put another shrimp on the barbie, SpotCrime is now mapping crime in Australia! SpotCrime is mapping crime in the state of Queensland . Queensland is the third most populated state in Australia with a population of over 4.7 million. Its capital is Brisbane which is the third most populated city in Australia, behind Sidney and Melbourne. Queensland government provides the data for the SpotCrime maps. Because the government has been open with their data, in addition to the Queensland police crime map , there is another 3rd party who maps the data too . We're excited to be mapping crime in yet another country. It's awesome to see crime mapped on the same map across towns/cities/states in the US and even more interesting to do it country to country. Want to see crime mapped in your country? Let us know . Let your police department know. Ask them to make their crime data open and available for anyone to use and share. Stay aware, stay safe!

There’s a lot to learn from UVA - Jackie’s story with Phi Kappa Psi , missing student Hannah Graham , the brutal murder of Yeardley Love - a culture on campus in which violence and sexual assaults are taken with a soft-handed approach. In each case at UVA, and across campuses nationwide, there is political as well as financial pressure for the campus police and administration to downplay or cover-up crimes committed on or by students either on campus or off. Jackie’s story recently recounted in a Rolling Stone article uncovered a broken system that fails victims and aids attackers. Students are calling for Dean Eramo to be fired for her role in keeping sexual assaults within campus authority rather than reporting them directly to the local police department. Since the story was published, many more UVA students and alumni have come forward with similar stories. It’s been brought to light that even when assaults are kept within campus authority, punishments are weak, or non-e

Since we've been mapping crime data in Philadelphia, we've decided to enter a submission into the OpenDataPhilly Visualization contest. Philly has been one of the most progressive cities in terms of open crime data. They've published an open crime data feed since the beginning. The maps we submitted to the visualization contest include SpotCrime.com and our daily and weekly email alerts. Both maps use Google to plot Philly crime data that's available at the OpenDataPhilly.org website. We've been using Google maps since our conception. In addition to our web and email, we also have apps for Android , iPhone , and Amazon Fire . And, we have SpotCrime.info (no ads) and MyLocalCrime (different colors and icons). As you may know, the SpotCrime  site is interactive. You can search by address, date range, keyword, date, and/or crime type on our Philly SpotCrime map. Learn more about searching by date range here . Clicking on each icon brings up and information

SpotCrime is now mapping crime in Newark, DE ! Newark is located in New Castle County in the second tiniest state in the US! Newark has a population of just over 30k, holding about 30% of Delaware's population. It's home of the University of Delaware Fighting Blue Hens. And, it's a short commute to both Baltimore, MD and Philadelphia, PA and is only 12 miles away from Wilmington , Delaware's largest city. Interested in learning about crime in Newark? Check out Spotcrime.com or MyLocalCrime.com . Need a quick view of the data? SpotCrime.info works great and it's mobile friendly. Don't forget to check out our apps for Android , iPhone , and Amazon Fire . You can sign up for you local crime alert here. Stay aware, stay safe!