I started a Buffalo crime map awhile ago when I was looking for apartments. I had heard that most of the crime was in East Buffalo…but I’m pretty sure that Buffalo-savvy people are working on a different gauge. So I subscribed to a bunch of online news feeds and police blotters and when I saw a violent crime at a specific location, I’d plot it on a customizable Google map.
When I would look for apartments, all I had to do was put the apartment’s address on the map and see how close it is to all the other dots (crimes). Needless to say, I wouldn’t have moved into that Connecticut St. apartment if I had consulted the map first. Always consult the map.
A friend of mine clued me in that Crimereports.com just added Buffalo to the list of cities that it keeps track of and it works a lot better than my manual, and often neglected, map. Check it out for yourself!
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