The Dorchester Reporter … reports … that the BPD, which not only blogs, but also tweets, has partnered with Salt Lake City-based Public Engines Inc. to use its CrimeReports.com website to map incidents to which BPD officers respond.
Good to know MHT’s block is crime-free.
The Dot Reporter itself beat the BPD to the punch with a map with information from police logs from precincts Dorchester and Mattapan earlier this year.
Via Universal Hub, whose Adam Gaffin built the Reporter’s (and Universal Hub’s) crime map.
Staff writer Galen Moore has been all over both ends of this phenomenon recently — GIS technology and hyperlocal media.
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