Privacy and terms
The map doesn't know who you are. It has no accounts, no cookies, no analytics, no ads and no tracking of any kind.
What happens to what you search
Everything you do on the map happens in your browser. When you search an address, it is matched against a list of New York streets that your browser downloads with the map; the address you type is never sent anywhere. Filters, dates and the places you open are worked out on your own device by a small database engine (DuckDB) that runs in the page.
What your browser remembers
To open the map the way you left it, your browser keeps four display settings in its local storage: light or dark map, whether the map is tilted, how areas are drawn (hot spots, precincts or boroughs) and whether the side panel is folded. They stay on your device and are never sent to anyone. Your searches, filters and the places you open are not saved. Clearing this site's data in your browser removes the settings.
Who your browser talks to
Like any website, the map has to be downloaded from somewhere, and those services see the standard information every web request carries, such as your IP address and browser type, under their own privacy policies:
- GitHub Pages serves the page itself.
- Cloudflare serves the data files.
- CARTO serves the base map (streets, parks, water), so it also sees which part of the city the map is showing.
The fonts and everything else on the page come from the map's own site.
About the people in the data
The data is published by the NYPD on NYC Open Data. It has no names, and the NYPD moves each complaint to the middle of the block or the nearest intersection, so a dot is never one person's home. For rape and sex crimes the NYPD withholds the location entirely; this map counts those complaints but never draws them. The map shows nothing about the age, race or sex of suspects or victims.
Terms of use
- The map shows complaints reported to the NYPD. A complaint is not an arrest or a conviction, and counts don't measure how safe a place is. Please don't use the map to make decisions about people, or as the only basis for decisions about where to live, work or invest.
- The data is shown as published by the NYPD on NYC Open Data, with the processing described in About this data. It can contain errors, and so can the map. Everything is provided as is, without any warranty.
- The data is subject to the NYC Open Data terms of use. The map's code is free to use under the MIT license, on GitHub.
- This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the City of New York or the NYPD.
Contact
To report an error or ask a question, open an issue on GitHub.