From the Mayor’s Office:
“Today, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the launch of Crime Cards – an interactive public crime mapping application that can assist DC residents and visitors by providing easy-to-understand data visualizations of crime locations, types and trends across all eight wards. Crime Cards, which is located at crimecards.dc.gov, will replace the DC Crime Map.
“With our community-based approach to crime and violence prevention, we are building a safer, stronger DC,” said Mayor Bowser. “By improving our crime mapping application to be more user and mobile-friendly, we are providing DC residents with the tools they need to stay informed and building trust and transparency in our community – an essential part of combatting crime across the District.”
A collaboration between the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO), and community members who participated at the #SafterStrongerSmarterDC roundtable design review, Crime Cards is a redesign of DC Crime Map. While Crime Cards will continue to use the same data as the DC Crime Map, the new application is mobile-enabled, more user-friendly, and offers enhanced search options with a modernized design. Additionally, the layout also makes it easier to visualize multiple data formats at once, and users can search the last eight years of data by Police Service Area, police district, geographical area, crime category or type, and date.
With DC Crime Map being a decade old, its software needed modernization to properly work on mobile devices, which currently accounts for half of Crime Map users. Key improvements in the redesign include: (more…)
