New LAPD Crime Map Includes Brentwood

The Los Angeles Police Department launched a new crime mapping system Friday that allows users to see violent and property crimes reported in Los Angeles, including those in Brentwood.

The mapping project was a collaboration between the LAPD and software applications developer The Omega Group.

The Los Angeles Police Department will directly feed its crime data to the Omega Group to ensure that each crime is reported accurately on the site. The records themselves are also screened for data that locates each crime incident geographically, to a hundred block.

“The LAPD has worked closely with the Omega Group to provide information that is not only accurate but useful to the public,” said LAPD Chief Charlie Beck. “Prior to this new partnership with CrimeMapping.com, the Los Angeles Police Department’s online Crime Map feature was consistently one of the most popular on our public website.”

A link to the crime maps can be found at www.lapdonline.org. Visitors to the Crimemapping.com site can filter results from several law enforcement agencies that provide data to the site. Users can also subscribe to receive free email alerts when a crime is reported in their area.

Crimes on the map include the date and time they were committed.

Funding for Crimemapping is provided by the Los Angeles Police Foundation (LAPF). The LAPF funds the department’s official website and essential equipment and programs for the LAPD, which are not included in the city’s budget.

Information for this announcement was gathered by Brentwood Patch from a news release provided by the Los Angeles Police Department.