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CRIMESTAT appears to be a hit with Winnipeg Internet surfers, police said Wednesday.
The new city police weekly update of neighbourhood crime statistics was behind a more than 200 per cent jump in traffic to the Winnipeg Police Service’s website, Sgt. Kelly Dennison said.
Dennison said in the week before CrimeStat was introduced Feb. 2, the Winnipeg Police Service’s website recorded 11,241 visits and 33,895 page views.
When CrimeStat was launched by Mayor Sam Katz and police Chief Jack Ewatski, the number of visits to the police website jumped to 37,488 visits with 39,388 page views.
“It did a lot to increase traffic to the site,” Dennison said.
He said the numbers mean people visiting the CrimeStat website (www.winnipeg.ca/police/) click on more than one page to see violent and property crime stats for their district of the city — there are six.
Winnipeg’s CrimeStat web page contains data about five types of crimes — homicides, car thefts, robberies, break-and-enters and sexual assaults.
Dennison said as CrimeStat goes into its third week the number of visits has trailed off a little bit as have page views.
He said police believe that’s because Winnipeggers are more familiar with the CrimeStat site and now know what page to click on to get information.
The CrimeStat policing program is part of a new way city police track and respond to emerging crime patterns, such as a rash of break-ins in a specific neighbourhood.
It’s modelled on similar programs in New York City, Newark, Minneapolis and several Canadian cities, and has been a big priority for Katz since he announced the program last spring.
In New York City, it was spearheaded by former mayor Rudolph Giuliani and has been credited for a 40 per cent reduction in eight specific crimes over a period of five years.
bruce.owen@freepress.mb.ca