I found the link below on the NRPD Website and found it very interesting. The website does a nice job of graphically showing time and dates of recent crimes in New Rochelle (and other reporting Cities). Likewise, it allows reports to be generated breaking crimes down by genre and date range.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Talk of the Sound has been recommending the Crimemapping.com software since June 2009. We provided an example of such a map might be used to track sex offenders: Interactive Map of Level 3 Sex Offenders in New Rochelle. We did the research and recommended two crime map solutions including crimemapping.com: Open Letter to City Hall: How About Crime Mapping Software for the New Rochelle Police Department?. We are glad to see the City of New Rochelle responding to our recommendations.
Two new services are now available to provide such a service while helping local law enforcement team up with citizens to provide a low-cost, high tech solution to a 21st century crime watch program. With local police forces stretched thin, cooperation with the public is essential. For far too long residents have not had a good way to know about crimes occurring in their neighborhoods and police have had no good way to communicate detailed crime data with residents, neighborhood associations, community groups, schools and other stakeholders in the New Rochelle community. These services solve these problems and deserve serious consideration by our City government and law enforcement officials.