# Crime reporting websites?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crime-reporting-websites/6257>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 16, 2000, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crime-reporting-websites/6257 "2000-01-16T17:39:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crime-reporting-websites/6257/1 "2000-01-16T17:39:00Z")

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I really don’t want to enter “murder” or “mutilation” or even “crime” in a search engine.

But a couple of headless bodies were found in a Minnesota field recently, and I’d really like to know how common this is (outside of the X-Files, I mean).

Anyone know of any crime reporting websites that a non-law enforcement person could peruse?

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**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crime-reporting-websites/6257/2 "2000-01-16T17:55:00Z")

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There’s the [Internet Crime Archives](http://www.mayhem.net/Crime/).

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crime-reporting-websites/6257/3 "2000-01-17T06:16:00Z")

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Forget that one. It makes my browser go nuts.  
Get the real stuff: [http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/stsoc.html#crime](http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/stsoc.html#crime)

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**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2000, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crime-reporting-websites/6257/4 "2000-01-17T06:29:00Z")

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Thanks Beatle and Handy.

My browser handled the Mayhem site okay though. The statistical site is a bit dry, but comprehensive and easy enough for a non-statistical person like me to understand.

Both are very scary. What a world we live in.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crime-reporting-websites/6257/5 "2000-01-16T23:08:00Z")

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You might try here…

[APB online](http://www.apbonline.com/index.html)

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