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SpotCrime.com is a Baltimore-based company founded in October 2007 and privately owned by ReportSee, Inc. It provides nationwide crime information about arrests, arsons, assaults, burglaries, robberies, shootings, thefts and vandalisms, on a Google map. SpotCrime will map data for any police agency who supplies open and unrestricted access to crime data.
The crime data is mainly from police departments, and news reports. Anyone can access these maps and have the option to sign up to receive free crime alerts via email and text ( SMS). The email alert includes a map and crime details that has occurred in the specified area. In 2012, SpotCrime.com launched its own crime tip service, Crimetip.us, allowing users to anonymously report crimes in their area.
SpotCrime.com is a part of the Emerging Technology Center (ETC) in Baltimore.
According to Compete.com, SpotCrime.com has twice as many visitors to its website than any other crime mapping company.
According to the site's blog, in November 2015 the site surpassed over 1 million subscribers.
SpotCrime.com was included in a research paper funded by the U.S. Department of Justice and prepared by SCRA titled 'Survey and Evaluation of Online Crime Mapping'.
SpotCrime.com created and published the SpotCrime Open Crime Standard (SOCS) in March 2014.