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A project in Caracas, Venezuela, is giving citizens a chance to take back their city by using their cell phones. Caracas, known as the crime capitol of the world is getting a chance to improve that image with a new crime reporting system called CiviRep. CiviRep allows citizens to report crimes in real time using their mobile phones, potentially giving the Caracan police thousands of eyes and ears on the street. Watch the video below to see how it works.
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Source: http://blogs.worldbank.org/governance/empowering-citizens-to-report-crime-via-sms-what-else-can-they-do-with-mobiles
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Police Chief Clarence Chan of the Pooler, Georgia, Police Department talking about the far-reaching benefits of CrimeReports to officers and citizens.
Source: Savannah Morning News
Forty-three additional law enforcement agencies have chosen to heed President Obama’s call for increased data sharing in government by joining the CrimeReports.com network in July. This astronomical growth for the leader in online crime mapping comes after a record-breaking month in June, when 49 agencies signed on to use CrimeReports’ innovative, low-cost crime-mapping tools.
As a result, CrimeReports has quickly become the first name agencies turn to when they want to share their data with the public. Currently CrimeReports hosts a roster of close to 500 agencies across North America who publish their crime data publicly through the CrimeReports.com website.
CrimeReports’ growth is indicative of the initiatives that law enforcement agencies, as well as state and local governments, are embracing as part of the Obama administration’s call for innovation through improved data sharing. The federal government is leading the way with its recent launch of data.gov and recovery.gov. And many state and local governments are following suit, creating their own open-data websites and federal recovery grant allocation maps. Similarly, law enforcement is embracing the administration’s initiatives though the use of CrimeReports’ publically available, integrated crime map.
“Not only is there currently a broad shift in law enforcement communication,” says Greg Whisenant, founder and CEO or CrimeReports. “But as more agencies turn toward social networking to communicate directly with their community, they realize that information sharing leads to greater citizen awareness, innovation, and improvement.”
Whisenant cites CrimeReports’ recent partnership with the Buffalo Police Department as an example. “By using this new technology to engage the public faster and more efficiently, Buffalo has become the largest law enforcement agency in New York to attempt the type of innovative public communication modeled by the Obama administration.“
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Google just announced some improvements to its popular mapping program Google Maps. Google Maps now includes icons for landmarks, places of interest, and major businesses. In addition, many of the icons are clickable and will bring up a picture, address, phone number, and—possibly—a Wikipedia article.
This new feature of Google Maps is good news for CrimeReports.com users. The addition of the new location icons will make it easier to get a tangible sense of the location and proximity of crimes plotted on the CrimeReports map. This increased spatial awareness can lead to a better understanding of where crimes are happening in relation to physical landmarks and businesses.
Source: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/08/i-didnt-know-that-was-there.html
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Baltimore County, Maryland, Police just announced their participation in a new program that targets areas of high traffic incidents and crime. The new program is called Data-Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety (DDACTS) and is a program through which areas of high crime and high traffic crashes are mapped and cross-referenced through GIS technology in order to create hotspots that can be better monitored by the Baltimore County Police.
The BCPD created a program in 2008 called the Crash Crime Project that was a preliminary versions of the current model, and led to the more robust DDACTS program that will be implemented soon. The BCPD hopes that the new intelligence-led program will reduce crime and traffic fatalities.
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Police Chief Mark Becker of the Portage Indiana Police Department talking about how CrimeReports can be a great community information tool.
Source: NWI.com
Collier County Florida is increasing efficiency and saving money with a new paperless subpoena system for law enforcement. The new system will cut down on the amount of time it takes to deliver subpoenas to officers for court appearances, and it will save money on paper and delivery costs. The entire situation is win-win for the Collier County legal system.
Source: http://ow.ly/15HxE9
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Stumble It!Chief Ed Delmore of the Fairview Heights, IL, Police Department, talking about how CrimeReports can be a great community outreach tool.
Source: BND.com
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The New York Times recently compiled a crime map of all homicides from 2003 to present and posted it on their website for the public to access. The information was complied mainly from open records requests from the NYC police department, but also includes data complied from court records, news accounts, and other sources.
The data can also be filtered to highlight homicides by weapon used, sex of victim, sex of perpetrator, ethnicity, age, and more. The Times plans to keep the map updated as new information becomes available.
In my opinion, this is an excellent map, with great information for citizens and law enforcement. But more than being interesting, this information could be mashed up with other data to create some really good analysis and inform future law enforcement policy and practice.
Source: http://projects.nytimes.com/crime/homicides/map
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Want more training on how to use ESRI products? ESRI will be hosting live training webinars for those who want to learn more about creating templates in ESRI on June 25th. Attendees will learn about:
• How to download map templates from the ESRI Resource Center
• What the map template kits contain
• How to use data with a map template
• Different kinds of map templates (e.g., street, topographic, and local government maps)
• Publishing map templates as mapping services via ArcGIS Online
For more information about this free live training seminar, as well as upcoming classes, visit www.esri.com/training.
Search crime in your neighborhood at CrimeReports.com
The Crime Map 