About:
usccrime.org was intially created for P.24, a 24-hour programming contest held by the USC chapter of the Upsilon Pi Epsilon computer science honor society, in February, 2007. It won the "Most Useful Application" award at P.24.
Purpose:
usccrime.org provides an interface for USC students, faculty, and other community members to access and visualize incidents reported to USC's DPS (Department of Public Safety) about crime in our community. Users are able to view incidents by date, time, location, and type, as well as view the locations on a map provided by Google Maps, including a crime density overlay. Various graphs are also available to show basic statistics and trends.
Team:
- Tom Robinson
- Andrew McNamee
- Connor Imes
Disclaimer:
Data obtained from DPS is unaltered whenever possible, so it is as accurate as the publicly available incident summaries on DPS's website. However, data from a particular incident summary is downloaded only once, so if an incident is changed on DPS's website after it has entered into to TOOBS, those changes will not be available via TOOBS.
usccrime.org is meant to be an interesting view of crime surrounding USC, not an accurate source of any kinda of data.
usccrime.org is not affiliated with the University of Southern California.