Raidsonline.Com, Crimereports.Com, and Crimemapping.com Not

¶ … raidsonline.com, Crimereports.com, and Crimemapping.com Not all the people in the whole world engage in meaningful and beneficial activities. Despite the fact that some individuals always try to do their best to improve on their economic status, others prefer assuming some fraudulent means that would offer them a short cut to economic triumph. These are the kind of individuals who engage in criminal activities. Several measures have been put up in countries all over the world to regulate the increasing levels of criminal activities.

Amongst these measures, is the use of crime mapping. Crime mapping sites monitor the level of crimes in different countries. They assist in building safer communities free from crimes. They also help the police departments in making their strategic plans purposed to reduce criminal activities through informing the masses. These sites interact directly with the law enforcement agencies without taking information from other websites.

This paper will concentrate on the comparison and contrast between raidsonline.com, Crimereports.com and Crimemapping.com basing on interfacing, mapping, as well as analytical capabilities within these sites. To begin with, all of these three websites have their own objectives to which they are tuned to achieve at the end. On totting up, the three websites have different kinds of crimes that they deal with while analyzing the various data.

Beginning with Raidsonline.com, it analyses data on various types of crime such as sexual assaults, burglary cases, and attempted homicide, robbery, theft, disorderly conduct and alcohol violation. The data analyzed about these crimes is then communicated to the masses. Cases of vandalism, weapon violation, and motor vehicle theft as well as arson and traffic incidences are also dealt with and analyzed in this site to trace the levels of crime rates and determine whether there is a fall or rise.

This data about crimes is obtained from the law enforcement agencies. CrimeReports.com is a website that purports to be operating in collaboration with more than seven hundred law enforcement agencies in North America. Furthermore, this site is considered to be providing the most accurate and current information about crimes. Most of the data about crime rates analyzed in this site include, assault, homicide, burglary, robbery, theft, vehicle theft, sexual offense and the quality of life.

The police departments believe that the information in this site may create awareness about the type of crimes that are happening in the neighborhoods and may alert the police whenever another crime incident happens thus creating safety among people in the community and the neighborhood. Crimemapping.com is a site that assists the law enforcement agencies in informing the masses some important information concerning the current crime activities within the neighborhood. Their main objective is to assist the various police departments in reducing crime activities.

Crime activities here are extracted from the various records in police and sheriff departments. Crimes that are dealt with on this site are homicide, assault, burglary as well as sexual offences. The main objective of this site is helping the law enforcement agencies in providing the masses with important information concerning activities related to crimes within the neighborhood. Therefore the data on crimes is obtained from different sources. While they all operate in collaboration with law enforcement agents, the number of collaborations differ.

Crimereports.com is said to be operating with above seven hundred law enforcement agencies thus it has the highest number of agencies. Crimemapping.com is said to be operating with 173 law enforcement agencies above 800 police departments that it operates with. The data grid showing the various crimes in raidsonline.com entails columns for the class, incident, crime, date/time, location, address, distance, accuracy and distance. Crimereports.com has its data grid having the date when the event was entered, the event location, event type and the identifier.

Crime reports is said to be the largest and highly comprehensive. On the other hand, raidsonline.com is said to be the highly advanced public crime mapping. Crime mapping is described as the network in the world that is not yet sophisticated but a key component in crime analysis. In the raidonline.com the various crimes can be viewed by use of an integrated feature that has a street map, a sophisticated data grid as well as an analytics dashboard.

In addition to this, in this site, crimes can also not only be filtered but also queried by use of several features for instance, the type of crime, the data range as well as the distance from the address. The whole of this information makes this website to have an upper hand as contrasted to the other two websites (Crimemapping.com and crimereports.com). Crimemapping.com is widely described to be employing the ESRI (GIS software) advanced mapping engine.

The engine assists in providing the highest level of functional capability plus the flexibility in the law enforcement agencies with which they operate. The view of the most current information on the web browser is made possible through regular extraction of crime data from every department's record system. Accuracy of the data is maintained through verification. In addition to this, there is high protection of the privacy through the generalization of the entire address information by blocks. Generally, this information contrasts to the counterpart websites.

Crimereports.com has a network that uses software tools that are not only easy to use but also affordable. This achievement favors the law enforcement agencies in understanding the trends in the crime activities and facilitates the sharing.