New Berkeley Crime Maps online
Sunday, July 30th, 2006Update 7/30/2006: Â
These maps no longer function, as the City of Berkeley has deactivated their data. When I asked the Berkeley Police Department about this, they said that they were going to offer their own crime maps online in a few months.
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The City of Berkeley used to have some crime maps on their website. They stopped updating the maps in 2003. The maps were input by hand, and it was a labor-intensive process. They Berkeley Police Department abandoned the Crime Maps in favor of the new Berkeley Police Bulletins system– however the documents are incredibly cryptic and require much work to be useful to most people. The Police Department added a layer of complexity by taking a plain text document and stuffing it into a proprietary PDF document.
A fellow Berkeleyan created some new online crime maps. They are updated daily, using the same Berkeley Police Bulletins which are released once per day. The site features email alerts, so you can be notified if a particular street is mentioned in a crime report.
Here is the website:
