Putting public data to work
Transparency is becoming the standard in public safety, and most of that data sits underutilized once it's released. We turn it into tools that help you communicate with the community you serve, and into analytics that give your team a clearer read on trends, capacity, and workload.
Both suites run on a single feed of your public data, refreshed daily, and we never touch your internal systems.
The department's outward presence
We run the public channel your residents follow, give your staff simple controls to publish in the department's own voice, and turn the same data into the official reports leadership expects. It makes consistent communication easy for a team that doesn't have time to build it.
A daily briefing your community reads
Newsletter · Dashboard · Live map · Neighborhood pages
Every morning we turn the previous day's incident data into a newsletter, a city dashboard, an interactive map, and a page for every neighborhood. Residents get a clear picture of what your officers respond to, the front desk gets fewer routine questions, and a community resources directory gives officers a current referral list for non-police matters.
It adds up to a modern public presence and a daily point of engagement with your community, without rebuilding a website, and it runs without your staff touching it. The best way to understand it is the live product we run for Bellingham.
Yesterday in Anytown
0calls for service, summarized for residents
By neighborhood
Publishing in your own voice
Staff notes · Articles · Site alerts · Ready-to-post graphics
Department sites and social accounts go stale, and even agencies with a dedicated PIO struggle to keep up. Through the platform your staff can add notes to the daily newsletter, publish articles under the department's byline, push site alerts, and export ready-to-post graphics for your own channels.
It's a communication channel that's already built and already read, so the department can tell its own story and reach the people it serves without the production lift.
Weekly Recap
412
calls for service, June 22 to 28
The reports leadership already expects
Council briefings · Monthly summaries · Annual reports
Council briefings, monthly summaries, and annual reports built from the same data, ready when you need them. Charts and tables export straight into the templates you already use, and staff can add their own context before anything goes out.
Custom views get built around your reporting cadence, so what your team reports on is what's ready. And because it all runs off the same data as the public product, there's no extra system to maintain.
Blocks
412
-6% vs prior
58
+4% vs prior
1,208
-2% vs prior
Incidents, last 28 days
By category
Agency narrative
A crime analytics toolkit for command staff
CompStat-style analysis and crime analytics capabilities, built for command staff and patrol. Use it to understand capacity, read trends across the city, and decide where patrol time goes, the kind of analysis larger departments staff a whole unit for.
It stays lightweight, running on the same public data source that powers the Communications Suite, refreshed every morning. There's nothing to integrate and nothing new to maintain.
Crime analytics dashboards
28-day trends · Category movers · Shift sheet
The numbers command references day to day, on dashboards that stay current on their own. Total incidents and how they've moved, where and when activity concentrates, and the specific places behind most of the recent volume, refreshed every morning.
It's the same operating picture departments build for CompStat and command review, ready without anyone assembling it by hand. The same read prints to a one-page shift sheet a sergeant can carry into roll call.
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-4% vs prior 28
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-9% vs prior 28
Category movers, 28 days vs prior
Purpose-built tools
Anomaly flags · Demand & coverage · Dynamic Zoning
Deeper tools built for specific questions. They surface areas running above their own baseline, so a few blocks with unusual activity get attention early, and they read where demand is heaviest and coverage is under the most strain.
Dynamic Zoning takes it further, redrawing beat boundaries so each zone carries a similar share of the work. If one car runs busy while another sits quiet, you have a defensible way to even it out, with the numbers to explain the change to the officers working those zones.
Each dot is one incident from a sample period. The dashed line marks an even split of the workload.
Bellingham reads it every morning
Bellingham Police publish incident data every day, and we turn that transparency into a community tool. What began as a daily newsletter has grown into the full Communications Suite, working under an official data sharing agreement with the department since March 2026.
Residents subscribe and engage with the department's data daily, getting a clear read on what their officers respond to and what's happening across the city. None of it adds work for BPD staff.
The lift stays on our side
From the first data export to launch day, the work sits with us. Agencies sponsor the platform, and the public product stays free for residents.
Step One
Data sharing
Some departments already publish the data we need, and we build from it directly. Where they don’t, we set up a simple data share covered by a short agreement. Either way, your team’s part ends at the export.
Step Two
Build & test
We map your codes and boundaries, backfill the data history, and stand up your city in a test environment, where our team checks the output and reviews the site end to end. Nothing personally identifying is ever published.
Step Three
Sign-off & launch
Your team signs off before anything goes public. Then your city goes live, refreshed automatically every morning.
Priced to the population you serve
Pricing is scaled to the size of your community, so a small department is never priced like a metro. There are no per-seat fees, and adding people from your team never changes the number.
For exact pricing, contact us.
Scaled to community size
A small department is never priced like a metro.
No per-seat fees
Add anyone from your team; the number never changes.
Free for residents
Agencies sponsor the platform; the public product stays free.
Request a demo
Tell us about your department and what you'd like to see. We'll follow up within a few business days.
What Happens Next
We review your request
We schedule a live demo of both suites
We walk through what partnership looks like
Email Us Directly
contact@civicinformer.com