Crime Watch, Crime Rates Stats description

Crime Watch tracks crime rates by city, marking areas with higher crime rates in stronger red.

Your location marker gives your location and current thread level. Click for information on your current location including your 'threat level', crimes in your area and nearby crime rates.

City markers show crime statistics per city, and crime markers show individual crimes. Click for information on a city including a 'threat level', populations, crime rates and top 8 offences.

Crime markers show individual crimes. Click for information on a specific crime including the place, address, distance and bearing from you, date, time and type.

Crimes can be added live. Enter a crime using the wizard, including the location (it will present locations for you based on your location), and is added to the crime listings.

Historical data is loaded for NSW Australia, and has historical crime data imported for the state, city by city. It uses Google Maps with Heat Maps, Google Places, and was originally submitted for the places api developer challenge.