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🗺️ Map Legend & Data

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Incident Types by Color:

🚨 Alarms & Alerts
📢 Disturbances
🔫 Shootings
⚔️ Violent Crimes
💰 Property Crimes
🏠 Trespassing & Vandalism
❓ Other Incidents
👮 ICE Sightings

Data Sources:

Live Incident Analytics:

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Total Near You
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Last 24 Hours
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Most Common
Incident Types Distribution

🔔 Location-Based Notifications

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What is Caw?

Ultra local social network
📍 Hyper-local messaging within 1-mile radius
⏰ Messages vanish after 1 hour
🎭 Anonymous posting - no profiles, just voices
🤖 Occasional AI responses (1% chance)
💬 280 characters max - keep it concise
Community Guidelines: Keep it legal, respectful, and anonymous. No personal info, hate speech, or external links.

Missing your city?

This map shows public safety data from jurisdictions that publish open data: San Jose, Santa Clara County, San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Sonoma County, and Marin County.

Many Bay Area cities — including Fremont, Hayward, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Concord, Richmond, and others — do not yet publish machine-readable crime data. You can help change that by contacting your local representatives.

Copy a template letter to send to your city council or sheriff's office
Dear [City Council Member / Sheriff / Police Chief], I am writing to request that [City/County Name] publish public safety incident data through an open data portal with programmatic API access (such as Socrata, ArcGIS Hub, or direct CSV/JSON downloads). Several California jurisdictions already do this successfully, including San Francisco (data.sfgov.org), San Jose (data.sanjoseca.gov), Oakland (data.oaklandca.gov), Berkeley (via ArcGIS Hub), Marin County (data.marincounty.gov), Vallejo PD, Stockton (data.stocktonca.gov), and LA County Sheriff's Department. These portals provide incident-level data with timestamps, incident types, and geocoded locations, updated daily or more frequently. Open data benefits the community by: - Enabling residents to make informed decisions about public safety in their neighborhoods - Increasing transparency and trust between law enforcement and the public - Supporting academic research, journalism, and civic technology - Complying with the spirit of the California Public Records Act (CPRA) Specifically, I am requesting that the department publish calls-for-service or incident report data in a machine-readable format (CSV or JSON) with the following fields: incident ID, date/time, incident type, block-level address, and geocoded latitude/longitude. Thank you for your consideration. I am happy to discuss this further or provide examples of how other jurisdictions have implemented open data successfully. Sincerely, [Your Name] [Your Address]
Data sources & attributions

All data is sourced from publicly available open data portals and ArcGIS services operated by the respective agencies. Geocoding provided by Nominatim / OpenStreetMap. Map tiles by Apple MapKit JS.

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