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Bureau of Justice Statistics
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The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a component of the Office of Justice Programs in the US Department of Justice, is the United States' primary source for criminal justice statistics.
BJS collects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government.
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Crime Down Eighth Straight Year
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The final 1999 statistics released by the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program in the annual publication Crime in the United States, 1999 indicate that reported serious crime was down 7 percent from the 1998 figure and 16 percent from the 1995 figure.
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Crime Maps on the Web: Chicago, Illinois
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Chicago's ICAM - - Information Collection for Automated Mapping—is an easy-to-use computerized mapping program designed to help Chicago police officers analyze and work with the city's communities to solve neighborhood crime problems. With ICAM, beat officers and other police personnel can pull up timely, accurate maps of beat, sector, district, or citywide crime incidents, analyzed by time of day and day of week. This "snapshot" of what is going on helps officers look for trends and hot spots; it then lets them work together with community members to develop responses to problems. The system also provides maps that are shared with Neighborhood Watch, Ameritech Cellular Phone Patrols, and other community groups.
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Crime Maps on the Web: Evansville, Indiana
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The crime information page, a project of The Evansville Courier & Press is designed to alert citizens to crime in the city. This page features a live police scanner and weekly crime information maps. Citizens can also click on a link to hear live transmissions on the public police & fire frequencies in Vanderburgh County, Indiana.
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Crime Maps on the Web: Sacramento, CA
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The Sacramento Police Department posts crime maps and statistics by neighborhood on the web and lets citizens file crime and commendation reports on-line.
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Crime Maps on the Web: San Diego, California
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The San Diego Police Department has used computerized crime mapping since 1989 as part of its successful crime reduction strategy. Its earliest crime mapping efforts were simple snapshots of criminal activity with little analysis. In 1994, however, the department reorganized itself around the concept of neighborhood problem-solving and delineated patrol beats by neighborhood rather than by precinct. This proactive strategy of neighborhood problem-solving takes direct aim at the elements that contribute to criminal activity by encouraging officers to look beyond an individual crime to the underlying causes of crime.
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Fresno, CA Maps of Sex Offenders
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Fresno, CA Police Department maps the location of know sex offenders in relationship to schools. Citizens have an easy-to-use interface that pulls up information that could affect the safety of their families.
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Internet Resources for Crime Mapping
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50 Internet resources related to crime mapping, including Web sites displaying crime maps, GIS and analysis software, hot spot identification methods, sources of census data, and virtual reality viewers. From the National Institute of Justice Report, Mapping Crime: Principle and Practice.
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Mapping Crime
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This National Institite of Justice report, Mapping Crime: Principle and Practice presents a broad approach and addresses the kinds of questions crime mapping can answer and how it can answer them. More than 110 colorful maps illustrate how geographic information systems GIS) are used to analyze crime problems. The appendix lists 50 Internet resources related to crime mapping, including Web sites displaying crime maps, GIS and analysis software, hot spot identification methods, sources of census data, and virtual reality viewers.
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Mapping Out Crime
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This report—the work of the Department of Justice and the National Partnership for Reinventing Government—describes what some of the most innovative law enforcement agencies in the country are doing. They are applying cutting-edge information technologies such as crime mapping to drive management decisions and to create real partnerships with communities to prevent and reduce crime.
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UCR 1999 Preliminary Annual Report
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According to preliminary data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, serious crime continued to fall in 1999, marking the eighth consecutive annual decrease nationwide. The data collected by the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program show a 7-percent decline in reported serious crime from the 1998 totals.
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