Requenes.com

It's even CALLED "Crimestats!"


It could have been done a little better, but it works. And they're giving the information away, whereas I thought to sell it. Good for them.



Here's the idea, as I envisioned it...

If this business were yours, you would send someone down to the police station each day to gather crime reports and enter them into your database. You would then market the service to people looking to move into a new house or apartment.

This would be ideal in a college town like Austin, Texas. You could advertise in the various guides that get sent to the parents of prospective students.

You could spice up the reports by including newspaper clippings (with photos) of the crimes, where possible.

Courtney says the service would be useful for finding out if the random screams and craziness we hear outside our window lead to actual police involvement.

Here are the 2001 crime statistics for the last two Austin neighborhoods I lived in. Guess in which neighborhood my house was twice robbed.

Zip Code Murder Rape Robbery Aggra- vated Assault Burglary Theft Auto Theft Arson Indexed Crime Non- Indexed Comb. Total 78756 5 15 10 143 395 32 2 602 680 1282

Zip Code Murder Rape Robbery Aggra- vated Assault Burglary Theft Auto Theft Arson Indexed Crime Non- Indexed Comb. Total 78745 2 41 57 79 568 2109 265 15 3136 3955 7091