New Crime Mapping System

For Immediate Release
 
Date:        
November 13, 2007
To:           
All Denver Police Officers, Media, Denver City Council, and Denver Community Associations.
Contact:  
Sonny Jackson
Address: 
Office of the Chief
1331 Cherokee St., Denver, CO 80204
Phone: 720-913-6534
Fax: 720-913-7021

Citizens are concerned about crime where and when is occurs.  The Denver City Government has built a new mapping system to keep citizens informed about crime.

The Denver Police Department and Denver Geographic Information Systems will jointly launch the new application tomorrow.  Denver residents will be able to search up-to-date crime data and generate maps and tables of crime around their homes, schools, and other locations of interest.  The system then displays a map of individual crimes, as well as a table that will show when and where each incident occurred.  The database will enable users to search by specific address, park, school, library, or neighborhood.

Searches cover 6 months, starting in January 2005 and extending to the most recent data available – the day before the search is conducted.  Information is updated daily as new crimes are reported and investigations yield new information.  Certain information is withheld, in order to avoid identifying juveniles or victims of sex crimes.