About WikiCrime
WikiCrime maps public crime data for Canadian cities — an independent project, not affiliated with any police service or municipality.
Where the data comes from
Every incident on the map comes from a covered city's own police or municipal open-data portal — the same public records those departments already publish. We don't collect data ourselves, run our own reporting, or supplement it with any other source.
How it's processed
Each covered portal is checked daily for new records. Every incident is mapped to one of 13 categories using the category each portal already assigns — nothing is re-classified or inferred. A category a portal doesn't publish is left out of that city's totals rather than shown as zero, so counts are never padded to look complete. Data is kept for five years; older incidents are pruned on the same schedule.
What this isn't
This isn't a 911 feed or a real-time emergency service — some portals publish with a delay of days or weeks. It also isn't a safety rating: a raw incident count doesn't capture context like population density, reporting rates, or what a category actually covers. Use it alongside other sources, not as the only input into a decision.
Location privacy
Exact addresses are never published. Before an incident is mapped, its coordinates are blurred to roughly a city block, so a dot shows a general vicinity, not a specific building. See Privacy for more.
Coverage today
Toronto, Ottawa, Brampton, Mississauga, and Montreal are live today, each sourced directly from that city's police or regional open-data portal. More Canadian cities are added as their own portals make it possible.