Legal Research

Crime Reports for Your Neighborhood

By Abbie Bradfield Mulvihill

CrimeReports.com is working with law enforcement agencies to let citizens know where and what kind of crimes are occurring in their neighborhoods. You can enter any part of your address to get a map with current crime report details. By clicking on "Crime Types/Sex Offenders" you can search which crimes you want to see listed (including "Show All"). The "Analytics" tab provides bar charts, pie charts, graphs, and grids that point out trends and further details. You can also register to sign up for regularly scheduled e-mail alerts as well as "time sensitive crime alerts, neighborhood and community policing program bulletins and other crime awareness and prevention information as they become available."

Currently, the following states have cities/counties participating in this online program:

• Arizona
• California
• District of Columbia
• Florida
• Georgia
• Illinois
• Louisiana
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Minnesota
• Nevada
• Ohio
• Texas
• Utah
• Washington
• Wisconsin

You can check the list of specific jurisdictions (participating police departments) here.

Full post as published by AbsTracked on February 02, 2008 (boomark / email).