SpotCrime - Know Your Neighborhood, now with Augmented Reality

What if you had special goggles that let you see crime incidents that have happened around you recently? Now you do, with SpotCrime!

SpotCrime is the iPhone application from SpotCrime.com, and is the first crime application to use Augmented Reality technology to give you a visual sense of where crime is happening around you!

Using the compass and camera in the iPhone 3GS, SpotCrime gives you a realtime view of the streets and city around you, overlaid with specific crime incidents as depicted with bold, colorful icons. Want to know whether it's safe to walk down a particular street? Aim SpotCrime at it and know right away!

For Your Location, Or Anywhere

By using the iPhone's GPS to find your location, SpotCrime displays recent crime activity around your current location, or any address you specify. Crime incidents are displayed with icons representing different types of crimes including shooting, robbery, assault, theft, burglary, arson and vandalism.

Are you traveling to a new city and want to get a sense of the crime activity there? SpotCrime can help you get a sense of the neighborhood and generate your own personalized crime report.

Unique "Safety and Security" Scores for Your Area

SpotCrime features a unique "Safety and Security" scoring system wherever we have data available. Using a proprietary algorithm, we compute a relative safety and security index for each location you want to explore. High scores (closer to 100) indicate lower risk. We also provide an "accuracy" score that will give you a sense of how accurate the safety and security scores are. It's a great way to know your surroundings!

Coverage and Source of Data

Through our proprietary sourcing model, SpotCrime pulls crime incident data from multiple sources including state and local police departments as well as validated news sources to provide a comprehensive record of local crime information.

We have coverage in hundreds of jurisdictions in North America as well as in several cities in Europe. More areas are being added daily. To see if your area is covered, try visiting http://spotcrime.com

SpotCrime.com Crime Classifications

Theft - The act in which property belonging to another is taken without that person's consent.
Burglary - The criminal offense of breaking and entering a building illegally for the purpose of committing a crime in that building.
Robbery - Using force or intimidation to take property away from another person in the presence of that person.
Assault - A physical attempt or threat to use violence with the intent to do harm to another.
Arson - The crime of intentionally setting fire to a building or property of another or the burning of one's own property to collect insurance.
Shooting - The act of firing a weapon in order to hit, wound, or kill someone or something.
Vandalism - The intentional destruction of or damage to the property of another.
Arrest - The seizure of an alleged or suspected offender to answer for a crime.

Features:

- View crimes on a map or in our unique Augmented Reality view
- Get detailed descriptions of the crimes listed
- Share crime incidents with others via email
- New data updated daily

Disclaimer: The data made available here have been modified for use from the original source. Neither SpotCrime.com nor our data sources make any claims as to the completeness, accuracy or content of any data contained in this application; makes any representation of any kind, including, but not limited to, warranty of the accuracy or fitness for a particular use; nor are any such warranties to be implied or inferred with respect to the information or data furnished herein. The data is subject to change as modifications and updates are complete. It is understood that the information contained in the data feed and this application is being used at one's own risk.