Crime data is highly sought after information.
Everyone wants to know what crime is like in any given area. As a Realtor®, I'm asked about crime all the time in any given neighborhood. Since I'm not a crime expert, I refer them to the City Of San Antonio Police Department Crime Data website and from there they can sort through the various data and statistics to figure out what they like or don't like about a neighborhood.
Unfortunately, most police departments are too busy working on solving and stopping crime to be worried about clean user interfaces and aesthetics in their crime data. Enter CrimeReports.com. Using a familiar and simple interface, CrimeReports allows the user to enter the name of the city and bring up a Google Map with an overlay of crime data in that area. With easy to locate icons reporting various types of crime, users can quickly and easily see what's happening in a given area.
Putting Texas on the map.
San Antonio is (so far) not covered, but New Braunfels is (which as you can see is where I took my screen shot). I hope that San Antonio will join the ranks of other Texas cities and begin feeding their data to the site. Currently the covered cities in Texas are: Argyle, Azle, Bedford, Burleson, City Of Weatherford, Dallas, Decatur, Euless, Farmers Branch, Grapevine, Haltom City, Highland Village, Hurst, Jasper, Murphy, New Braunfels, North Richland Hills, Paris, Plano, Richland Hills, Roanoke, Rowlett, San Angelo, The Colony, University Park, Victoria, and Watagua.
The site also allows you to search through sex offender registries, combining both crime data and sex offender registration sites into one easy to access source.
Thanks to Jay Thompson for posting about this site on his blog, Phoenix Real Estate Guy. Even if you're not in Phoenix, his blog is a great source of information on real estate and I highly recommend him.
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