I write web applications computer programs sometimes as a job and most of the time for fun. The following is a crime fighting tool I wrote a few months ago.
-> http://crime-reconnaissance.appspot.com/
The idea is simple: a "user" knows of some crime or suspicious behavior. Let's say they have surveillance footage related to the incident, and have uploaded the video to Youtube. Also, they know the address of the incident.
They would go to crime-reconnaissance.appspot.com, login in with their Google username, and post 1) address 2) link to Youtube video 3) a description and info of the incident.
Crime-reconnaissance.appspot.com has nothing useful on it as of now. That's because I wrote the cool software, but don't have any crime incidents to report. The material currently up there are mere examples to show the software in action. What's needed are real users with real incidents to post on the site. Hopefully someone reading this gets an interest and posts something. Web 2.0 tools such as this are only powerful once a critical mass of users use it.
If you look at crime-reconnaissance.appspot.com and say "wow, thats an ugly interface, it could be designed so much better", then I am prepared to accept your criticism. I wrote the core software, which works well enough, but waiting on users to show up to give me feedback and to test the software under a heavier load.
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