Portal Grants Residents Access To Crime Reports, Statistics

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JOHNS CREEK, GA -- The Johns Creek Police Department is the first agency in the greater Atlanta area to launch an open data portal, enabling citizens, academics and media outlets to access police data in an interactive online format.

Aptly named PoliceView, the portal includes police department statistics, community reports and their progress towards key goals.

With the current climate of police-community relations across the country, this initiative "emphasizes the department’s commitment to maintaining and improving citizens’ trust through transparency and accountability," Johns Creek police said in its press release.

“We believe that community involvement and support is the key to our success,” Chief Ed Densmore added. “PoliceView allows us to engage more meaningfully with our residents by increasing transparency, providing context alongside data, and publicly sharing the goals and objectives of our team.”

Making policing data widely available reinforces community partnerships, equips the public with real-time data, and allows the police department to define and achieve operational goals more effectively.

Powered by Socrata for Public Safety in partnership with SunGard Public Sector, Police View currently includes four datasets: incidents, calls for service, citations and accidents. Community reports as well as data supporting the False Alarm Reduction Program and Traffic Enforcement Program are also available.

Johns Creek police's portal can be access by clicking here.

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