The District’s crime map got a refresh.

On Friday, D.C. government rolled out Crime Cards. It’s an update to the District’s decade-old crime mapping tool, providing capabilities to search for specific kinds of crimes and visualizations of crime “hotspots,” among other data.

At a news conference, Mayor Muriel Bowser demoed the new tool with leaders from the Metropolitan Police Department, Office of the Chief Technology Officer and D.C.–based Mapbox who worked on the effort. Chief of Police Peter Newsham said the modernization came as a result of input from police and government officials, as well as feedback during a hackathon last year.

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