Monday, July 12, 2010
A new crime-mapping system on campus will help protect the KU community and work as rumor control.
The website, www.crimereports.com, will allow users to visually see where crimes occur. The KU Department of Public Safety debuted the mapping tool this month.
KU Public Safety Chief Ralph Oliver said he hoped the map would put an end to gossip that is often spread about crimes on campus.
“It’s real information to either support or debug rumors,” Oliver said.
A few of the crimes reported on the map within the past two weeks included disorderly conduct on Bagley Drive, an arrest for driving under the influence on West 18th Street, and an incidence of graffiti damage to the Kansas Union on Jayhawk Boulevard.
Icons on the map show the location, time and severity of the crime. Columns of information tell users what crimes have occurred in the past seven days, and users can view crime information from several months ago. Members of the KU community will know which areas have recently seen crimes such as car thefts, assaults and robberies.
Oliver said the department combined the map with the information it is required by federal law to report, but that the highlighted areas on campus weren’t necessarily dangerous.
“If there’s a laptop stolen in Wescoe, that doesn’t mean it’s dangerous to be in Wescoe, but we’re required to put that all up,” Oliver said. “If there is an area where we think there is a real threat, we would put out a separate crime alert,”
Scott Kinzie, senior vice president of marketing for CrimeReports.com, said the site acted as a modern way for community members to keep watch over their neighborhoods.
“It’s a perfect tool to collaborate with a neighborhood watch program,” Kinzie said.
The Lawrence Police Department also uses an internal system similar to the crime mapping of outside sites. Sgt. Michael Monroe said the department planned to upgrade its system in the near future.
“We developed our system years ago but we’re not saying ours is best,” Monroe said. “It is an older system and we are exploring different options.”
It will cost the Public Safety Department about $2,000 a year to create the online maps through the site.
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