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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.



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...


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)


afaict from checking that site for years, that's only fire department responders, not police.




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