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Show HN: CrimeStream – Tulsa's police dispatch calls mapped out in realtime

tulsacrimestream.com

26 pointsbaudday12 comments

Nice work.

I live in Stillwater, but come to Tulsa often. I'd like to buy you coffee if we're ever in the same town at the same time.

Awesome! I actually went to OSU! Get at me on twitter if you're ever in Tulsa and would like to meet up. @willem_jr

Nice work! It'd be nice I think to be able to zoom out a bit for perspective.

I suppose I can allow a couple more zoom levels. I'm just trying to limit my requests to mapbox as much as possible since this is all out of my pocket

Thanks for putting the source up [0]. I need to work with leaflet.js and mapbox so this will be a useful reference.

[0]https://github.com/baudday/crimestream

I assume "Alarm - Intrusion" is just a burglary alarm activation. Why is that considered "serious"?

I get the descriptions from the police department's data and attempt to make general classifications based on those descriptions. An alarm, while not always serious, can be serious. Without knowing more about the incidents I have no way to determine if an alarm is false or not so I just display them all as serious. It may be worth creating a separate classification for alarms

The _vast_ majority of automatic alarm activations are false alarms (whether it's police or fire).

I don't know anyone in emergency services who would consider an automatic alarm activation a "serious" incident. They're more of an annoyance...

The skull-and-crossbones icon is also maybe not the best choice for these. At first glance I thought that meant there had been a fatality. A plain red marker for "serious" incidents would be better.

I think I'll rework the classifications a bit tomorrow

I should say, this is a really cool project! I wish there were something similar for my area.

Thanks, I appreciate it!

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