Yeah!!!  Here is a cool new CrimeReports app for the iPhone which allows one to research crimes in particular neighborhoods.

One of the top questions I get from my buyer clients is how safe a neighborhood is, something which is really subjective.  I always refer my clients to specific community websites to do their own research on what is happening crime wise in a neighborhood.

Now, buyers & residents in general have this great site where one can enter a specific property address to bring up all crime mapped data, a much better feature then what I’ve seen on some community police sites.  Online crime mapping data is updated daily and CrimeReports  updates sex offender data weekly.  The free iPhone app is cool for immediate data on the go.

The CrimeReports website has a great analytics feature along with the option of having time sensitive crime data emailed to you for a specific area.  There is also a Citizens Crime Alert where crime maps can be emailed to you daily, weekly, or monthly.

Hopefully, more police departments will sign on to this great information sharing service.  So far, San Francisco has joined & in the mid-upper Peninsula: San Mateo, Burlingame, Santa Clara, Palo Alto, Half Moon Bay, & San Carlos are in.