// About the project
The Global Crime Map
A single interactive globe that pulls crime data from official open-data sources around the world and puts it on one map, honestly, with every layer’s source, granularity and date on show.
What it shows
Open the map and switch views top-left:
- World · Homicide: intentional-homicide rate per 100,000 for 190+ countries (UNODC).
- World · Organized Crime: the Global Organized Crime Index, colourable by any of its dimensions: overall criminality, 15 criminal markets, 5 actor types, and resilience.
- Countries: sub-national police data for 25+ countries as regional layers.
- United States: a state-level heatmap with a crime-type filter, a reporting-agency overlay (~17,000 agencies), and a two-state comparison.
How it stays honest
Crime data is easy to misrepresent, so the map follows a few rules. It never compares raw counts across countries; cross-country layers are normalised per 100,000 and use harmonised series (UNODC, Eurostat, the OC Index). It labels granularity with a tier model (geolocated incidents, regional aggregates, or national figures) and never renders an aggregate as if it were a precise point. Every layer names its own source, tier and period.
How the data gets here
An automated pipeline fetches each source directly from its official portal or API, validates it, aggregates it to a privacy- and performance-safe resolution, and republishes it. No source is added before it passes a data-access audit. The full source list, with links, lives on the Datasets page.
Who made it
The Global Crime Map is a demo by Cerny.AI (Jan Černý), showing OSINT and geospatial open-data work turned into a decision-ready map.
What is the Global Crime Map?
It is an interactive 3D globe that visualises crime data drawn from official, open government and inter-governmental sources worldwide: homicide rates for 190+ countries, the Global Organized Crime Index, crime by US state and city, and sub-national police statistics for 25+ countries. It is a demo project by Jan Černý / Cerny.AI.
Where does the crime data come from?
Every layer comes from a named primary source, UNODC (via the World Bank), the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, Eurostat, the FBI Crime Data Explorer, and national statistics offices or police services. The full list, with links, is on the Datasets page.
Can I compare crime between countries?
Only where the map says so. The homicide and Organized-Crime-Index layers are per-capita and harmonised, so they are built to compare across countries. Country and US-state layers use each system’s own recorded counts, comparable within a country, but not between countries, because legal definitions and reporting rates differ.
How current is the data?
Each layer shows its own period on the map. Some sources publish rolling monthly data, others annually; the map always states the date of the layer you are viewing, and an automated pipeline refreshes each source at its own cadence.
Is it free to use?
Yes. The map is an open, no-login demo. Every underlying dataset remains under its own provider’s licence, which is noted on the Datasets page.
How granular is the crime data?
Three tiers. Tier 1 is street-level: geolocated incidents aggregated to roughly 600-metre grid cells (United Kingdom, Czechia, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, Seattle, San Francisco, Dallas). Tier 2 is regional: police or statistics data by region for 25+ countries. Tier 3 is national: harmonised series such as the UNODC homicide rate, used for cross-country comparison.
How often is the map updated?
A daily automated pipeline re-fetches each source from its official portal at the source’s own publication cadence. Some feeds are monthly, others annual; the active layer always states its data period.
Do the street-level dots show exact crime locations?
No. Incidents are aggregated to grid cells of roughly 600 metres before publication, so a dot marks a cell with one or more recorded incidents, not an exact address. This protects privacy while keeping the density pattern honest.