During the past 30 years, the law enforcement community has experienced tremendous growth in capturing crime data, as well as calls for service. Many creative partnerships have emerged among local ...

— -- A growing number of police departments — nearly 1,000 nationwide — are using online crime mapping services to grab data from their police reports, identify crime trends and then push the ...

"I was a landscape architect who turned to a life of crime," jokes Robert Cheetham, founder of Azavea, a software development and research firm based in Philadelphia. Fourteen years ago, he was one of ...

Missing data for the new year was first noticed by KBTX and brought to the attention of the city police department.