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Tracking crime in your neighborhood
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Manteca Police Chief Nick Obligacion goes online to check current crime information in the City of Manteca.
Want to know what crimes have been occurring in your neighborhood within the past five days?There’s an app for that.Manteca Police have rolled out a new online crime map that gives users the ability to spot trends in their neighborhood or near their workplace.Police Chief Nick Obligacion is hopeful it will encourage citizens to help reduce their chances of become crime victims. The online system is not costing the city or users a cent.“It is part of our promise to be as transparentas possible with the people we serve,” Obligacion said.The program known as RAIDS Online developed by BAIR Analytics not only fills the gap left in the department when the crime analyst position was eliminated but it provides the same services for officers but much quicker.Obligacion said a crime analyst would develop maps on a weekly basis that would be used in briefings before shifts started to alert officers of trends of where crime is taking place so resources could be directed toward the crime hot spots. Now RAIDS Online uses police reports to provide that information as it is entered.