Cleaning out the Safari bookmarks from the past year or so, and dumping those worth keeping into my del.icio.us account. Along the way, I came across SFPD CrimeMAPS. This page describes the San Francisco Police Department’s CrimeMaps service, where you can view crime data mapped against the city. I think this was originally rolled out in 2003 or 2004, and I bookmarked the site before ChicagoCrime.org was announced. The SFPD site says Windows only, but it does work in Firefox 1.5 on a Mac. Awkward interface, considering what we’ve all come to expect.
But CrimeMaps is an ancestor (known or not) of ChicagoCrime.org from Adrian Holovaty. I see that Sgt. Tom Feledy of SFPD Crime Analysis Unit, the contact person for CrimeMaps, commented on Holovaty’s blog about the ChicagoCrime announcement back in May. I hope they worked something out and San Francisco can get a similar treatment. I searched for such a thing and didn’t find it, so if it already exists, please let me know.