Code Across Challenges: Crime & Public Safety

Crime & Public Safety

What has changed recently?

• NYPD has begun releasing data on crimes and their locations (NYPD Crime Map). The data behind this crime map has been made unofficially accessible using a hack (link to site).

What is the specific issue at hand?

• Finding timely and consumable information about crime in the neighborhood hard to do.
• The existing NYC Crime Map implementation by the NYPD, while a step forward, is not the most usable tool for identifying trends in neighborhood crime.

Sample Challenges

From community boards

• Build alternative maps to visualize the locations of crimes, their type, and long term trends.

###From betaNYC hacknight

• Provide a tool that merges crash data with transportation data to identify streets and intersections that should be redesigned.

##Data

###Overview

• BetaNYC Crime and Public Safety data wiki
• NYC Crime Map

##Other sources

• NY DCJS Criminal Justice Statistics