Project Safe Neighborhoods Wins Digital Government Achievement Award
October 12, 2005/Harrisburg, Pa.: The Project Safe Neighborhoods Mapping and Analysis Program (PSNMAP) received a 2005 Digital Government Achievement Award (DGAA) from the Center for Digital Government (Center). GeoDecisions, a leader in the information technology industry, developed the application in partnership with the U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO), Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
The national DGAA program recognizes outstanding agency and department Web sites and applications that enhance information interactions, transactions, and/or services. It is produced in conjunction with the Center’s annual Best of the Web awards program, which collectively received more than 350 entries in 2005.
PSNMAP is a secure, Web-deployed, regional crime analysis and mapping system that collects and archives a wide-range of major crime incident data. It was developed to support the federal government’s Project Safe Neighborhoods initiative to advance various anti-gun violence strategies.
Through the secure site, local, county, state, and federal users can access a network of crime data and perform basic or advanced queries, analyze the results, as well as view crime data through a table or map featuring a geographic distribution of the selected criminal activity. The application was the first federal-level solution that integrates local police department data into a federal warehouse, as well as the first multi-jurisdictional application to track regional gun violence and firearm statistics using geospatial technologies.
“ PSNMAP helps us get to the heart of the problem more quickly,” said Pat Meehan, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. “It streamlines the process, helps us cut through the data, and allows us to target areas where gun violence is having its most devastating impact. Technology is an important tool in fighting crime. We are proud to support an initiative like this and are equally honored to receive recognition for it.”
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