Biography
SpotCrime is a nationwide portal for local crime data.
It was founded in fall 2007 by Coline Drane. Primarily, it services its data by relationships with individual municipal police departments.
Technical.ly Coverage (11 posts)
- With a mobile app, SpotCrime is adding new kinds of local police data
- Listen to testimony in favor of state Open Data Policy [AUDIO]
- How Hunt Valley’s Sinclair Broadcast became America’s biggest TV station owner
- SpotCrime’s Philly crime map gets 30k visitors/month
- SpotCrime crime-mapping startup surpasses 1M unique website visitors
- Use this beautiful Inquirer crime map tool before it goes behind paywall
- Justice Mapping Center: NY-based reveals ‘million-dollar blocks’ of incarceration nationwide
- BmoreTech highlights data-viz projects from SpotCrime, Sickweather, Shea Frederick
- SpotCrime.com founder Colin Drane: more transparency needed with police crime data
- SpotCrime.com: former Philadelphia resident turns tragedy into data
- CrimeReports.com partnership with latest six months of Philadelphia Police crime data