Public crime data becomes more open and transparent city by city

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on May 21, 2014 2:37 PM EDT
opensource.com; By Brittany Suszan
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In 2007, Colin Drane wanted to know more about the crime that was happening in his Baltimore neighborhood. Utilizing the momentum of the open government movement, he founded SpotCrime, a public facing crime mapping and email alert website that collects public crime data from police agencies around the world. Today, SpotCrime is even more than that. The technology is used to advocate for open, equal, and fair access to crime information driving open data in the public safety sector.

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