Hooray for crime mapping!
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.
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 !
Posted by: Janet Harrison | Saturday, July 05, 2008 at 04:03 PM
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.
Posted by: Mike Beeman | Saturday, July 05, 2008 at 07:51 PM
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!
Posted by: Rich | Sunday, July 06, 2008 at 02:32 PM
THe community group site is great.
Posted by: | Sunday, July 06, 2008 at 07:51 PM
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.
Posted by: noneposted | Sunday, July 06, 2008 at 10:01 PM
I luv the comunity groups it helps me see what' goin on.
Posted by: | Monday, July 07, 2008 at 12:07 AM