Chicago crime alerts with a Street View photo of the block, straight on your lock screen. Free, no account, and the only one that tells you exactly how old every incident is. Paid for by ads rather than a subscription — and never placed beside an individual violent incident.
Other apps drop a pin and move on. You never learn what happened. We join CPD's two feeds on the police case number, so a shooting that alerts you tonight comes back in eight days with the official report attached. The pair below illustrates the sequence.
Measured on live data: 51 shootings auto-linked to their official CPD records, 40 follow-up notifications delivered, and zero duplicate first-time alerts on the same run.
The City of Chicago publishes police incidents “minus the most recent seven days.”
That is not a rumour. It is written on the Chicago Police Department's own CLEARMAP site, and we measured it: across the 2,000 newest records, the minimum gap between a crime happening and it being published was 7.65 days. Not one record under seven days. Not one.
So when another app pushes “incident near you” and shows a pin with no date, you are usually looking at last week. We think you should be told that. Chicrime stamps every single incident with where it came from and how stale it is.
Shootings and gun homicides, from CPD's violence-reduction pipeline. No embargo. Fastest we have clocked: 1.8 hours. Polled every 15 minutes.
Confirmed deaths from the Cook County Medical Examiner — the only fast record of a homicide that was not a shooting. Records CPD already reported are dropped so nothing is counted twice.
Every other crime type. Held seven days while CPD verifies classifications and scrubs victim detail. Nothing can change this — not us, not anyone.
The map merges all three into one set of crime categories rather than keeping them as separate layers — a homicide is a homicide whichever office recorded it, and every incident still names its source when you open it. The app currently alerts from the two CPD feeds; the medical examiner is on the map only.
Search any Chicago neighborhood or community area. We pull every reported incident, bucket it by week or month, and compare the most recent complete period against the one before it. Real CPD data, computed live in your browser.
Trends are built from CPD's main incident feed only. The faster shooting and medical-examiner sources cover a narrow slice of crime, so mixing them in would make a neighborhood look like it changed when only the reporting did.
CPD tags crime by community area — the city's 77 official statistical districts — not by neighborhood. So Ukrainian Village, Wicker Park and River North have no figures of their own; searching them resolves to the community area that contains them, and the result says which one.
Two things we will not hide from you. The most recent period is always excluded — CPD's seven-day embargo means it is still filling in, and showing it would fake a crash in crime every single week. And where a category has very few incidents, a swing from 2 to 4 is “+100%” but means nothing; those get flagged rather than dressed up as a trend.
Every reported incident in the window, drawn on Chicago's 77 community areas. Hover a neighborhood for its name and count; click any marker for the full record, or isolate a single neighborhood from the dropdown. Three sources feed this map — CPD's main incident feed, CPD's violence-reduction feed, and the Cook County Medical Examiner — merged into one set of categories, with each record naming where it came from. Homicides and shootings are ringed because they are the most serious, not because of which source reported them.
Every incident near you, coloured by severity. Toggle to a density heatmap weighted by how serious the offence is — a homicide counts for more than a trespass.
Alerts arrive with a photo of the block, camera aimed from the road back at the incident. You recognise the corner before you read the text.
Type it or auto-detect it. Set anywhere from 0.1 to 5 miles, and pick exactly which of the 32 crime types are worth waking you up.
Track any incident and get notified when CPD amends the report — an arrest, a reclassification, added detail.
Silence routine alerts overnight, evaluated in Chicago time. Fatal shootings still come through.
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