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Friday, July 04, 2008

Hooray for crime mapping!

Policecar Wondering what was with all those police sirens that woke you up last night?

The Kansas City Police Department is now offering this nifty online tool to look up crimes in your neighborhood (or anyone else's neighborhood). Data is updated every night, and you can even get e-mail alerts about crimes near your address.

(We had a short story about this in Thursday's paper, and I know someone posted it on the OT. But I thought I'd do a post for the weekend, when people who are interested would have a little more time to play around with it.)

| Sara Shepherd

P.S. The Star has a crime-mapping tool on our Web site, too. It's cool, but not quite as comprehensive.

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http://www.kcpd.org/kcpd2004/communitycrimedata.html

This is another great tools for communities.
I really like it. You can see crime boken down by the community you live in !

Yeah this is a great tool for community leaders. You can checkout the crime in individual communites. I'm still playing around with how you sort the community numbers per month.

I love how my block in Waldo has some weird crime-deterring force field around it, while all the B&E crime happens to all my rich neighbors along Meyer Blvd. Suck it, Brookside douchebags!

THe community group site is great.

This is a super cool site. Thanks for the heads up.

I wonder if more communities will participate?

Mine doesn't look like it is participating. I love living in denial...as do my neighbors.

I luv the comunity groups it helps me see what' goin on.

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