Privacy

How we handle location data

This site is privacy-first. When you report a break-in, you place a pin at (or type in) the spot where it happened, but the exact point you chose is never stored — not privately, not anywhere. It's snapped to the middle of your block (the 4800 block of 13th Ave S is shown halfway between 48th St and 49th St) before your report is ever saved, and that's the only version that exists. Minneapolis Police Department places its own records the same way, so the two sources line up on the map.

To find your block, we send the point you chose to OpenStreetMap services to look up the street and house number. Those lookups are not saved on our side.

The block-level point is close enough to see the pattern across a neighborhood, not precise enough to point at a specific house or tell anyone which driveway a car was parked in.

The map. The map pictures on this site are drawn by a map provider (Mapbox). Like any map, the provider's servers see your IP address and which part of the map you look at. We send them nothing else, and the crime data on top of the map comes from this site.

Looking up crime near you. If you use the "Near me" page, the address or coordinates you give are sent to this site to run one calculation, and an address is sent to OpenStreetMap's geocoder (Nominatim) to find its coordinates. We don't store the address or the location, don't put them in the page address, and they aren't written to our logs.

Reports are anonymous. We don't collect names, emails, or accounts, and we don't accept photos.