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SpotCrime collects crime data from validated sources, maps them, and provides crime alerts to the public at no cost to police agencies nor the public.
Overview
Location
United States, Maryland, Baltimore
Employees
11-50
Phone
+1 877-410-1607
Founded date
2007
Mentions in press and media 14
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| Aug 3, 2021 | SpotCrime Enlists Woolpert to Deliver Google Maps Platform Services, Technical Support | Woolpert is a global mapping leader who delivers the same access to Google products as Google, while streamlining services and providing top-level technical support. BALTIMORE (PRWEB) August 03, 2021 Woolpert has been contracted by SpotCrim... |
| May 19, 2021 | This Week in Jobs DMV: Harbor Lights Edition | Editor’s note: Every week we ship an email newsletter featuring the region’s most exciting career opportunities. We’ve lovingly called it This Week in Jobs (aka TWIJ — “twidge.”). Below is this week’s edition; it’s meant to live in your inb... |
| May 18, 2021 | This Week in Jobs DMV: Harbor Lights Edition | Editor’s note: Every week we ship an email newsletter featuring the region’s most exciting career opportunities. We’ve lovingly called it This Week in Jobs (aka TWIJ — “twidge.”). Below is this week’s edition; it’s meant to live in your inb... |
| Oct 21, 2016 | CityLab map shows how stingray use disproportionately affects people of color | Along with privacy, advocates digging into police use of tracking technology are also consistently raising concerns about the potential that it will disproportionately affect people of color. When it comes to the cellphone tower simulator k... |
| Dec 4, 2015 | As SpotCrime grows, fight for police data transparency remains | As founder Colin Drane sees it, SpotCrime is working to destroy its own business model. The Baltimore-based startup uses data released by police departments to provide crime alerts via email. In working to get access to that data, Drane is ... |
| Sep 18, 2012 | SpotCrime.com founder Colin Drane: more transparency needed with police crime data | Crime mapping is something that consumes much of Colin Drane’s time. As the founder of SpotCrime, based in downtown Baltimore, he’s responsible for overseeing a website that sends out nearly 5 million e-mails a month to people in cities nat... |
| Oct 23, 2011 | How the Cloud Makes Financial Data More Liquid | Marcia Metz, a web operations executive at EMC Corporation recently coined the term information liquidity, the ability to freely flow assets and adapt them to different shapes, in the context of Web content management systems. I suggest the... |
| Sep 23, 2011 | SpotCrime.com: former Philadelphia resident turns tragedy into data | On May 7, 1998, 23-year-old Wharton Ph.D. student Shannon Schieber was strangled to death on her second-floor apartment by Troy Graves, who would later be characterized as a serial Center City rapist. That’s about the time when Colin Drane ... |
| Aug 10, 2011 | CrimeReports.com partnership with latest six months of Philadelphia Police crime data | Preliminary public safety reports from the last six months, the deepest public archive to date, are now being published online by the Philadelphia Police Department in a partnership with CrimeReports.com. “We want to help create a cycle in ... |
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FAQ about SpotCrime.com
When was SpotCrime.com founded?
SpotCrime.com was founded in 2007.
What has the press written about SpotCrime.com?
Parsers VC has collected 14 articles mentioning SpotCrime.com, among them “SpotCrime Enlists Woolpert to Deliver Google Maps Platform Services, Technical Support” (Aug 3, 2021) and “This Week in Jobs DMV: Harbor Lights Edition” (May 19, 2021).
Is SpotCrime.com still active?
Yes, SpotCrime.com is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Aug 3, 2021.