ORLANDO, Fla. — The city of Orlando launched an open data website Monday that residents can use to track crime and other vital information in their community.
Orlando Police Chief John Mina said that during meetings with neighborhood watch groups and advocacy groups, the most common pieces of information people wanted to know were about crime, service calls that officers responded to and the use of force. %
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Mina said the site is only updated once a year and the goal is to increase what information is available and how quickly.
"Eventually I want all of our police shootings on this, so our residents can see. I want information about internal affairs complaints and how our officers are disciplined on this website as well," Mina said.
Information regarding sexual assault and domestic violence are not included on the site for reasons of privacy and protection, Mina said.
"By releasing all this data, we wanted to ensure that people weren't able to, quote un quote, connect the dots and find out exactly where a certain victim lives and what crime happened to them," Mina said.
The website also includes information about building permits issued in the city, trash and recycling routes.
Mina said people want to know what's happening in their neighborhoods and near their homes.
"At our neighborhood watch events, we learned our residents wanted more information about crime happening in their community, but they wanted to know was a residential burglary or a commercial burglary and now we're able to do that," Mina said.
The website allows users to get specific about what types of crimes they want to look up in specific neighborhoods. The information on the site dates from 2009 to the end of 2015.
To view crimes and other information about your neighborhood, click here.
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