September 8 Rockville Police Report

Here again is another installment of Rockville Central’s mapped police blotters. This is for the September 8 report, which covers the last half of Labor Day weekend, from the Rockville Police:

Remember, the map may not come through in the email or in newsfeeds, so you will have to come back to the blog to see it!

As always, I will try to keep making these maps as time allows. (It can take some doing sometimes.)

Please note that by posting this information, I am not rendering any opinion about guilt or innocence; this is just police data. Also, as I am an unofficial source, I may make mistakes.

September 1 Rockville Police Report

Here again is another installment of Rockville Central’s mapped police blotters. This is for the September 1 report, which covers part of Labor Day weekend, from the Rockville Police:

Remember, the map may not come through in the email or in newsfeeds, so you will have to come back to the blog to see it!

As always, I will try to keep making these maps as time allows.

Please note that by posting this information, I am not rendering any opinion about guilt or innocence; this is just police data. Also, as I am an unofficial source, I may make mistakes.

Last Half of August Rockville Police Reports

Here again is another installment of Rockville Central’s mapped police blotters. This is for the last half of August, reports for the 18th and 25th from the Rockville Police:

Remember, the map may not come through in the email or in newsfeeds, so you will have to come back to the blog to see it!

As always, I will try to keep making these maps as time allows.

Please note that by posting this information, I am not rendering any opinion about guilt or innocence; this is just police data. Also, as I am an unofficial source, I may make mistakes.

August 4 and August 11, 2008 Rockville Police Blotter

I am told that Rockville Central readers like our police blotters. So, while it is still a bit time consuming, we are happy to present a new mapped incident report.

Here is the last two reports’ worth worth of crime information (August 4 and August 11, 2008) from the Rockville Police:

Remember, the map may not come through in the email or in newsfeeds, so you will have to come back to the blog to see it!

As always, I will try to keep making these maps as time allows.

Please note that by posting this information, I am not rendering any opinion about guilt or innocence; this is just police data. Also, as I am an unofficial source, I may make mistakes.

Rockville Police Blotter, July 2008

I know, I know. You thought I had abandoned my police blotters. Those who like them seem quite loyal, and I am sorry to have let you down. I had been trying to figure out a way to semi-automate the process. Using available Google tools, my system kept failing. Finally I just gave up for a while.

But then a good friend pointed out that I used to do them and people liked them . . . which gave me the impetus to have another go.

Here is the last month’s worth of crime information (July 2008) from the Rockville Police:

Remember, the map does not come through in the email or in newsfeeds, so you will have to come back to the blog to see it!

(Just for grins, note that there is not one incident near Beall’s Grant. I’m just sayin‘.)

Since it’s a full month of info, there are over 100 incidents citywide — I did not have the wherewithal to give them little red flags and whatnot. You will just have to live with that.

I will try to keep making these maps as time allows.

Please note that by posting this information, I am not rendering any opinion about guilt or innocence; this is just police data. Also, as I am an unofficial source, I may make mistakes.

Rockville Police Blotter 02-11-2008

I know, I know. I am behind on my police blotters. Those who like them seem quite loyal, and I am sorry to have let you down. I’ve been trying to figure out a way to semi-automate the process. Using available Google tools, my system keeps failing. Thanks to Rockville Living, I found a solution that is workable for now.

I am very, very hopeful that eventually Rockville City Police will move to a system like the one Montgomery County Police have recently adopted, which allows for real-time crime incident mapping. It is very cool.

Until then, I will keep plugging away.

Here is the latest Rockville police blotter available, for February 11, 2008:

Remember, the map does not come through in the email or in newsfeeds, so you will have to come back to the blog to see it!

Please note that by posting this information, I am not rendering any opinion about guilt or innocence; this is just police data. Also, as I am an unofficial source, I may make mistakes.

Rockville Police Blotter 01-24-2008

Here is the mapped version of the January 24, 2008 Rockville police blotter. I missed the one on the 14th, because I was working so hard at . . . well, work. In fact, I shouldn’t be doing this one right now!

(Remember, if you are receiving this in the email announcement, the map does not come through and you will have to visit the blog itself.)

Click on the little flag to learn more about each reported incident.

Each week’s police report is a separate map. Click here for a list of all of them.

Rockville Police Blotter For 01-07-2008

Here is the mapped version of the first Rockville police blotter of the new year, dated 1/7/2008.

(Remember, if you are receiving this in the email announcement, the map does not come through and you will have to visit the blog itself.)

Click on the little flag to learn more about each reported incident.

Each week’s police report is a separate map. Click here for a list of all of them.

Rockville Police Blotter 12-03-2007

As I mentioned in a previous post, I have been working on some behind-the-scenes ideas to make the mapped Rockville police blotter work more efficiently. It takes a long time to hand-code each incident to a map, and once it is done I can’t do anything with the set of information but map that one report. I believe I have developed a way to create an ongoing list of incidents that can be mapped. Moving forward, I will be using this new system, starting with the first blotter in the New Year. (For those who care to know such things, I am using the very cool Google Earth.)

Meantime, here is the very large blotter for 12/3/2007. Click on any “pushpin” for a description of the incident. (Remember the map does not come through on email so if you are receiving this as an announcement you will have to come to the blog.)

Thanks to Rockville Living for a pointer to a good batch geocoder.

Rockville Police Blotter 11/26/2007

I was away the week after Thanksgiving and wasn’t able to get to this until today. In any event, below is the Rockville police blotter dated 11/26/2007, as provided by the Rockville Police Department.

As always, the map below does not show up in the email announcement, so you will have to come back to the blog to view it.

Click on individual pushpins and map markers for an explanation of each incident.