9-year-old girl abducted on way to school: "Less than two months after a middle school girl was abducted and sexually assaulted on her way to a bus stop in Killeen, police are investigating another alleged kidnapping of a young girl.
Around 7 a.m. Friday, a 9-year-old girl was headed to a bus stop near West Ward Elementary when she was apparently kidnapped near York Avenue and Murphy Street by a light-skinned male. The suspect was described as driving a dark sedan, according to reports from the Killeen Police Department."
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Does your Government (and thus you) actually own its data? | eaves.ca
Does your Government (and thus you) actually own its data? | eaves.ca: "The story is as such. Public Engines Inc is paid by police departments to collect and analyze their crime data. Given this privileged position Public Engines strips the data of privacy related information and, through a service called CrimeReports.com, it allows citizens to see maps of it and so forth.
The problem is, this isn't actually open data. As I argue in the three laws of open data (and the good folks at Berkman seem to share my sense of humour) crime data for cities that contract with Public Engines Inc isn't open. You can look at the data, but you can't touch it. Worst still... don't even think about playing with it (unless you are doing so ON crimereports.com website, in a way that their license lets you - its all quite constraining stuff).
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The problem is, this isn't actually open data. As I argue in the three laws of open data (and the good folks at Berkman seem to share my sense of humour) crime data for cities that contract with Public Engines Inc isn't open. You can look at the data, but you can't touch it. Worst still... don't even think about playing with it (unless you are doing so ON crimereports.com website, in a way that their license lets you - its all quite constraining stuff).
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Friday, August 20, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Post Now - Priest held on sex charge in Fairfax
Post Now - Priest held on sex charge in Fairfax: "A W.Va. priest has been arrested on charges that he sexually abused an 11-year-old girl last week inside a Herndon home, police said.
Monday, July 12, 2010
MyLocalCrime.com Crime Map launched
A fast alternative crime map has been launched.
View the website in Firefox, Safari, or Chrome and immediately see crime incidents in your neighborhood. MyLocalCrime uses the native geolocating ability of the browser to instantly detect your location and map crime information around your area.
Crimes are identified by easy to read color coded icons. And crime details are provided by SpotCrime.com.
Just click on the crime in the map or the table below to get more information.
Provide your email address and the following day you should begin to receive crime alerts around your address.
Type in interesting addresses to see crime around those locations.
Here's a map of crime around the The White House:
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