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Our Price: $11.99


Product Code: CRIME-CHICAGO


Description
 
It is music to your ears when your GPS says "A Better Route is Available!"

But should you take it?

Now be alerted in unfamiliar areas if you approach an area of high violent crime!

Today's GPS systems give consumers more control over their route than ever before.
  • Routes use historical speed data that can find more obscure routes that are actually quicker.
  • Improved traffic services alert consumers, offering detours onto local roads in times of heavy congestion.
  • The use of via points allows consumers to customize a route to a local road that looks quicker on a map.
But should you really divert to those local roads?  Now you have another piece of information to help you decide.

OK, sounds helpful, but what does this really do?

CrimeFind for GPS uses your proximity alert function of your GPS to alert you while you are driving, when you approach areas of the city with a higher than average crime history.

CrimeFind uses crime incident data for violent crimes. Violent crimes are: Homicide, Aggravated Assault, Robbery, Aggravated Robbery.  Incident data over the past 12 months is used.

The location of crime incidents over the past 12 months are aggregated and categorized by their <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census_tract" target="_blank">Census Tract</a> which are used because of their relatively small size, typically only several cities blocks.  Crime  incident statistics are analyzed to determine the average for the entire city. Census Tracts that have crime incidents at least 3 times the city average are selected.  Census tracts that have crime incidents greater than 3 times the city average are mapped and included in the proximity alert file.

This is a proximity alert file that you install on your GPS.  The file already contains the alert radius, therefore, you install it without setting your own alert distance.  This is done because the alert radius varies with each census tract depending on the census tract size.  The alert radius is used to coincide with the census tract size.

As you drive, when you approach a census tract with average violent crime over the past 12 months greater than 3 times the city average, your GPS will alert you so you are informed.  The crime rate (i.e, "4X") is displayed along with the census tract number.  Each census tract is an individual POI within the file, so you can also plan ahead and search "along your route" for the CrimeFind POI to know whether your proposed route will take you into, near or through a high crime area.  Any high crime census tracts will show "along your route" just as a gas station or hotel can be displayed "along your route."

This file is for the city limits of Chicago.  It does not include the suburbs.
 
Features
Uses the proximity alert function of your GPS to alert you as you enter a census tract where the 12-month historical crime rate is 3 times or greater than the average city crime rate. The file contains the alert radius built-in. Do not set this is a proximity alert file or set a custom alert radius when you install the file.


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