About RochesterCrime.org
RochesterCrime.org is a free searching tool to view local crime data for Rochester, MN (and just added all of Olmsted County!). This website is not an official source of crime information for Rochester, it is only an alternative view of this information constructed from publically available crime reports. This website is aimed at helping you:
- Find Information About Your Neighborhood
- Great for neighborhood watch groups
- Promotes community involvement
- Enhances crime awareness and prevention
- Map and Chart Crimes
- Geographically map out specific crime types, or crimes within a certain time period
- View charts of crime incidents over the course of time
- Produce detailed reports based on many different types of search criteria
- Stay Informed
- Subscribe to an RSS news feed to get up-to-date information (coming soon!)
- View informational articles on crime prevention and policing methods
- Daily feeds of information keep the community informed on what's happening
Where Do You Get This Stuff?
The information on this website comes from daily reports generated by the Rochester Police Department, and fed into this webpage for the public to view. Additional information also comes from the Olmsted Sheriff's Office website, and from the Cop Talk Live website.
The data displayed on this site may also be incomplete (without proper address, any address, time of day). This is a limitation of what is available to us currently, and we try our best to clean up any errors we may find before it is loaded into our system. This information cannot be regarded as completely accurate, nor is there any guarantee of such accuracy. We only provide a graphical approximation of crime information based on what is publically available to use.
Comments/Suggestions?
You can contact the website owner, Josh Pankratz, at josh (at) rochestercrime.org.
If you have information about a crime
Please contact the Rochester Police Department, or if it is an emergency, call 9-1-1.
Disclaimer
RochesterCrime.org is not affiliated with the Rochester Police Department nor the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office. The information presented on RochesterCrime.org is not an official source of crime information, rather it compiles public information from various sources and presents it to the community.
Crime information presented here is based on calls for service to the Rochester Police Department dispatch area, not based on criminal convictions.
This web page is a public resource of general information. RochesterCrime.org does not make any warranty, representation or guaranty as to the content, sequence, accuracy, timeliness or completeness of any of the database information provided herein for any reason. All aspects of the data provided herein are susceptible to a degree of error due to the complexities of the process involved in compiling and programming the data.
All materials contained in this site are distributed and transmitted "AS IS" without warranties of any kind, either express or implied including without limitation, warranties of title or implied warranties or merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall RochesterCrime.org become liable to users of these data for any loss or damages, consequential or otherwise, including but not limited to time, money, goodwill, arising from the use, operation or modification of the data. The visual presentation of data is being provided strictly as a courtesy, and not as an obligation to its readers.
Privacy policy
We will not keep any personally identifying information (name, address, search criteria) linked to you on this website. We only collect statistics on what what type of usage this website gets for reporting purposes.
Acknowledgements
There are some very good Google Maps, Javascript, and CSS references out on the web, as well as co-workers that I have gotten great advice/help/code from, and this is a "Thank YOU" to everyone who has helped put this website together.
Some really good Google Map resources:
Want to help?
You can make donations on our donations page. Donations help defray the cost of maintaning and providing this publicly available website.
Also, feel free to contact us at support (at) rochestercrime.org to become a business sponsor for the website.
If you have ideas for how to improve the site, send suggestions to support (at) rochestercrime.org.
Thank you!