SpotCrime.com - How Safe Is Your Neighborhood?

Are you curious to discover how safe your neighborhood really is? At SpotCrime you can get a visual idea of how many crimes go on in your neighborhood. SpotCrime uses Google map to illustrate where crimes have occurred. Every state is included with all major cities. To begin pick your location, a Google map will appear with icons placed in How Safe Is Your Neighborhood?all of the locations a crime has taken place. SpotCrime includes all types of crimes such as: arrest, arson, assault, burglary, theft, vandalism, shooting, and others. SpotCrime has many filters so you can find the exact information you are looking for. You can choose which crimes you are searching for as well as the date in which the crime occurred. You can even filter the time in which the crimes occurred. You can zoom in on the map to target your street and clearly see which crimes occurred. Each crime icon has a short description of the crime, if you want to learn more you can click on the icon to get further details and to add comments. SpotCrime is a useful way to research the safety of cities and neighborhoods for whatever reason it may be from deciding where to move to a collecting data for a class project. How safe is it where you live? Take a look at and get crime alerts at SpotCrime.com.

"The most comprehensive online source of crime information.
Local maps, crime reports & classifications, real-time interactive maps."

SpotCrime is a unique idea, safety is an important issue that is becoming more and more of a problem. SpotCrime is very thorough and it is great that it includes maps of all major cities. The filtering tools are also very useful, users can get very specific with their search and determine important details such as time. The crime alert feature is a good way for users to be notified of crimes in their neighborhood. The icons are very clear and the short descriptions are a good way to give uses a general idea of the incident. Users can express themselves by using the comments feature for the crimes.

If SpotCrime becomes more popular will it consider expanding and becoming international? Although the crime glossary is useful the help section could include more information on the site’s features. There should be more Web 2.0 features so that users can collaborate and discuss community safety issues.