CrimeReports.com Keeps Track Of Your Neighbors

Are you looking for a detailed way to keep track of police calls in your neighborhood or town? A new website called CrimeReports.com allows visitors to view where crime reports were filed and integrates the information with Google maps.

Founder, Greg Whisenant started the site after being a victim of crime himself. He let a stranger into his apartment and was robbed. He wondered how technology could help and came up with the site. The site has been up for about a year.

Participating police departments pay $100.00 - $200.00 to upload their internal information to the site. Visitors can then view a map format where crime reports were filed. There is no charge to the visitor and Whisenant has vowed to keep the site ad- free. There are around 40 police departments currently enrolled. In order to protect privacy, the actual address of the report is not listed - it is marked on a “block” where the incident occurred.

This seems to be much like the Bad Neighbors website that recently caught public attention.

It seems to me that with more technology ’self policing’ is getting to be more of the “norm” instead of the exception. Whether this is better for society, I have yet to decide.

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