Egnaro TV

For the past few months I've been subscribed to the Toronto Police Services news release email lists for several Toronto divisions. I have a few unscientific observations to make after reading through them on a weekly basis.

It's alarming the number of sexual assaults that occur. I'm encouraged that things have changed since Jane Doe's battle with the police force and that theynow put out these news releases within hours of the assaults happening instead of keeping it a secret so as not to scare off the assailant. Most assuring of all though is it seems like 99% of these news releases are followed up within a wrek or two to say the suspect has been apprehended.

Aside from sexual assaults, the releases generally cover break and enters as well as other physical assaults. Kind of an interesting way to keep an eye on what's going on around your neighbourhood. I actually wish these were in an RSS feed with some custom fields such as type of crime, some form of geo data etc. I think these would be even more useful in a database and on a map somewhere. TPS should even be twittering every time they put one of these out.