Cops and Courts

Ginny Schuler, senior criminal justice programmer/analyst, has added a some cool new features to the website, including a map that shows where incidents occurred.

The map is also color coded depending on the agency.  The Missoula Police Department incidents will appear as blue.  The Missoula County Sheriff’s Department will appear as green.  And a combined city/county incident will appear as orange.  The map will also show the different wards in the city limits (color coded).

If users hover over a particular colored agency icon, they will see the information about the call.  If they click the icon, it will take you to the detail of the incident in the report.  If you click the magnifying glass in the report, it will take you to the incident on the map.  The regular report will appear next to it on the right side.

At the top right, there is a reset function and a print function.

Unfortunately, the new report does not include an exact street address of the incident, apparently based on a request from law enforcement for privacy reasons.

Also, the further back you look at archived information, the longer the web page will take to render and could possibly obscure the mapping.