Crime Database

Group 1's idea is currently thinking of a way for the police and other law enforcement agencies to be able to spread important information about public safety to the people it needs to get to in a timely manner. We started thinking about this because of the recent occurrences on campus dealing with armed robberies. The current alert system is that emails are sent out to all the students are on campus, and though they are able to get information out to everybody, it does not meet the requirements of doing it in a timely manner. We were considering using a system that employs many of the newer social networking websites and programs that are utilized by a vast majority of college students. A message that is posted on Facebook or sent out through Twitter not only would be received by most of the students but they would also be sent out very quickly. People would also be able to spread the messages themselves through their own social networks. Ideally eventually a social environment, like Second Life could be utilized to spread information as well as provide an environment where law enforcement agencies could see where crimes are occurring by people reporting within the system. It would allow intercommunication between the agencies and the people that they are trying to protect.