A Community Mapping Solution

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A Community Mapping Solution
CrimeMapping.com Instructional Guide
San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroners Department
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What is CrimeMapping.com

• Public access to crime occurring in and around
  communities.
• Uses new hybrid in mapping technology which
  utilizes both Google Maps and ESRIs advanced
  geographic engine.
• Crime data is available as recently as the prior
  24-hours.
• The date range for crimes displayed represents
  the last ninety (90) days of activity.
• The service is funded by the local law
  enforcement agency and is FREE for the general
  public.

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A Community Mapping Solution
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What Can I See Do?
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What Else Can I See Do?
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Accessing the Map

• Pick an agency from the list and youre taken
  right to a predetermined area for that agency.
• Additionally, the calendar is adjusted to the
  last day of imported crime for that agency.

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Find an Address

• Use Googles address searching capability to zoom
  directly to an address.
• Perhaps you want to go right to your childs
  school address or the address of the property you
  are looking to purchase.
• You can do that quickly, from here

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Using the Map

• Drag Zoom
• The DragZoom tool allows you to draw a rectangle
  on the map and zoom in to the area inside that
  rectangle.
• Clustering
• Clustering is the process of abstracting several
  points that intersect one another visually, into
  a single point.
• Clicking a cluster will zoom the map to the
  center of the cluster and reveal the points.

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Using the Map

• Two different symbol sizes
• For your convenience weve provided two different
  symbol sets for viewing crime.
• If you have a large screen resolution or a
  limited screen size, you can swap easily between
  large and miniature icons.
• Easily turn on or off 15 different crime types
• To focus your query or search for a particular
  crime that you might have seen you can turn on
  or off the crime types that are displayed on the
  map.
• Please note that some crime types may be
  excluded for confidentiality reasons.

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Crime TypeSymbols

• Here is list of each symbol and it's definition.
• Note that it is common for two agencies to have a
  similar definition for the same Crime Type.
• In order to remain consistent for all the data,
  we map our Crime Types as to the following
  symbols
• Please Note Sex crimes and domestic violence
  have been excluded due to confidentiality issues.

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Using the Map

• Easily view your date range on the date tab
• To search for crime from last week, or even last
  month you can adjust the visible date range by
  clicking the date tab and choosing different
  dates on the calendar.
• Find crime around a point of interest
• To focus your search for crime around a
  particular location, you must do two things.
• Search for an address
• Focus your search around that address

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Using the Map

• Jump quickly to any other agency from the agency
  tab
• You can browse around the map quickly by jumping
  to different agencies in the list under the
  Agencies tab.
• Find the distance between an address and a crime
• You may recognize a crime on the map and want to
  know how far away it is from a certain location.

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Using the Map

• Generate a detailed report based on the visible
  crimes
• At any point during your time using the map to
  find crime you want to see a detailed list of
  crimes just click on the Generate Report tab.

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Using the Map

• Get a printer-friendly version of the visible map
• Sometimes you may want to print off a copy of the
  visible map and you can do that very easily right
  from the map itself.

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Receive Crime Alerts!

• Any member of the public can sign up to Receive
  Crime Alerts!
• This additional service is FREE and provides
  customized reports via e-mail to any subscriber.
• Having a well informed citizenry has been proven
  effective in reducing crime.

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Crime Alerts Notification
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Crime Alerts E-Mail
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Sheriffs Jurisdictional Responsibilities
The Sheriff-Coroners Department has jurisdiction
in the following unincorporated areas and
contract cities within the County of San
Bernardino.

• Contract City Police Departments
• City of Chino Hills
• City of Rancho Cucamonga
• City of Grand Terrace
• City of Loma Linda
• City of Highland
• City of Yucaipa
• City of Big Bear Lake
• City of Hesperia
• Town of Apple Valley
• City of Victorville
• City of Adelanto
• City of Needles
• City of Twentynine Palms
• Town of Yucca Valley

• Unincorporated County Areas
• Barstow Station
• Big Bear Station
• Central Station
• Colorado River Station
• Fontana Station
• West End Station
• Morongo Basin Station
• Twin Peaks Station
• Victor Valley Station
• Yucaipa Station

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Independent Police Departments

• Why isnt there any crime showing in the
  following cities Chino, Ontario, Montclair,
  Upland, Fontana, Rialto, Colton, San Bernardino,
  Redlands, Barstow?
• Sharing crime data with the community is a choice
  each department makes. We believe that this is a
  valuable service by helping to keep the general
  public better informed.
• The Sheriffs Department does not have
  jurisdiction over these independent police
  departments.
• If you believe these agencies should join in this
  nationwide effort please contact those
  independent police agencies directly.

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Comments Questions

• Any problems and/or questions can be directed to
  the Public Affairs Division at 909-387-3700 or
  via e-mail at paffairs_at_sbcsd.org.

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About The Omega Group

• CrimeMapping.com was developed by The Omega Group
  to help law enforcement agencies throughout North
  America provide the public with valuable
  information about recent crime activity by
  neighborhood.
• Omegas goal is to assist law enforcement in
  reducing crime through a better informed
  citizenry. Creating more self reliance among
  community members is a great benefit to community
  oriented policing efforts everywhere.
• The Omega Group has over sixteen years of
  experience in building crime analysis and mapping
  applications. Throughout the United States,
  hundreds of agencies currently use one of Omegas
  desktop or web-based CrimeView solutions. They
  are the premier provider of innovative solutions
  for crime analysis and reporting.