Mapping Crime Data
Since 2007

Crime data is public information. It belongs to the communities it describes. But for decades, accessing it has been fragmented, inconsistent, and unreasonably difficult — scattered across thousands of police department websites, PDF reports, press releases, and dispatch feeds with no standard format and no central index.

SpotCrime exists to fix that. We aggregate crime data from police departments, sheriff's offices, verified news reports, and public records across 22,000+ cities. We normalize it into a consistent format — type, date, time, location, description, source — and make it available through crime maps, email alerts, and a developer API.

The principle is simple: informed communities are safer communities. When people know what's happening in their neighborhood, they make better decisions — about where to live, how to stay safe, and how to hold their local institutions accountable.

We believe crime data should be accurate, sourced, and accessible. Every record in our database links back to an original source — a police department report, an official press release, or a verified news article. We don't generate crime data from AI summaries or unverified tips. If we can't source it, we don't publish it.

We also believe the data should speak for itself. SpotCrime doesn't editorialize crime trends to fit a political narrative. When crime is up, we report it. When crime is down — as it has been, historically, across the United States — we report that too. The data leads.