SpotCrime Maps Local Illegal Happenings

By Kevin Purdy on May 23, 2008 at 7:05 AM

US Only: Crime-mapping mashup SpotCrime pulls data from city police records and news sources and plots it in an easy-to-snoop fashion. Choose a city, a time frame, and the types of offences you want to see, and you can mouse over the pinned icons to see thumbnail descriptions, or click an item for a full read. The site claims that humans are working in the background to make sense of the data, and that incidents show up anywhere from 3-24 hours after they’re reported. A good tool for checking out a potential neighbourhood for moving or exploring, or just keeping up on what’s going down across town.

SpotCrime [via TechCrunch]

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  • PJB
    May 23, 2008 at 12:09 PM

    Please pick up your act, SpotCrime is USA only.
    Please stop blindly reposting Lifehacker USA posts and do a bit of Oz focussed value add.
    Otherwise we might as well just subscribe to the original Lifehacker feed.
    Remember you are Lifehacker AUSTRALIA.

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