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Re:Walking The Beat – Mining Seattle's Police Report Data by sgk284 on Thursday August 21, 2014 @02:17PM (#8208771)
The Seattle PD is very open about their data. Every single beat has it's own twitter stream of dispatches (delayed by an hour, for obvious security reasons): http://www.seattle.gov/police/tweets/

Whenever I hear a bunch of sirens driving by, it's great to know that in short order I'll see what was happening in my Twitter feed.

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Re:Walking The Beat – Mining Seattle's Police Report Data by jonjenk on Thursday August 21, 2014 @02:35PM (#8208884)
It's interesting that they delay the Twitter by an hour. You can get real time 911 info for Seattle here.

http://www2.seattle.gov/fire/realtime911/getRecsForDatePub.a...

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Re:Walking The Beat – Mining Seattle's Police Report Data by comrh on Thursday August 21, 2014 @10:47PM (#8210687)
Holy crap. Wow I have a serious respect for the Seattle PD now, that is very open.

edit: I found out why that one is real time. It isn't Seattle PD but Seattle Fire. (https://twitter.com/SeattlePD/status/502651325117526016)

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Re:Walking The Beat – Mining Seattle's Police Report Data by headstorm on Thursday August 21, 2014 @02:43PM (#8208940)
afaict from checking that site for years, that's only fire department responders, not police.
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