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Understand and uncover the identity of your location with a tap.
http://sitegeist.sunlightfoundation.com
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Idea: add some sort of "crime data" #7

Open nickom opened 11 years ago

nickom commented 11 years ago

A user wrote to request that we add crime data as it's a valuable data point to learn about the area.

It's difficult to get standard crime data since it's normally done by the local or state police and has all sorts of different standards/methodologies, but maybe there's something from the Bureau of Justice Statistics:

http://www.bjs.gov/

nickom commented 11 years ago

Or the FBI: http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement