Crime visualization

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I found this article showing how with the current technology, it has become a breeze to visualize crimes on maps with the internet (in some cases with the help of google) :

20 Visualizations to Understand Crime

There's a lot of crime data. For almost every reported crime, there's a paper or digital record of it somewhere, which means hundreds of thousands of data points - number of thefts, break-ins, assaults, and homicides as well as where and when the incidents occurred.

With all this data it's no surprise that the NYPD (and more recently, the LAPD) took a liking to COMPSTAT, an accountability management system driven by data.

While a lot of this crime data is kept confidential to respect people's privacy, there's still plenty of publicly available records. Here we take a look at twenty visualization examples that explore this data.

_http://flowingdata.com/2009/06/23/20-visualizations-to-understand-crime/


There is this particular website : _http://www.crimereports.com/

The world leader in online crime mapping, with over 600 law enforcement partners across North America. NOW featuring Sex Offender Data for all 50 States!

Which allows you to see the face, names and location of all sexual offenders, there is an Iphone app , a citizen crime alert by email...

It just prove to show, that there isn't much difference in the social networking tools and this, just thought I'd post it, for reference.

 

[anart]

There is this particular website : _http://www.crimereports.com/

The world leader in online crime mapping, with over 600 law enforcement partners across North America. NOW featuring Sex Offender Data for all 50 States!

Which allows you to see the face, names and location of all sexual offenders, there is an Iphone app , a citizen crime alert by email...

It just prove to show, that there isn't much difference in the social networking tools and this, just thought I'd post it, for reference.

Woah, that is a LOT of detail on these people, right there for anyone in the world to see.