Safer City

• Alberto Espinoza
• Tarik Jabrane
• Nanmin Kone
• Justino Almazan

Being affected or in the presence of crime is inevitable anywhere you go. For example in 2016, Chicago had the highest murder rate in two decades with 762 victims. Safer City is working on an iOS app allowing users the ability to transparently view the location and description of the crimes that occurred. Some of the crimes used by the Safer City are aggravated assault, sexual assault, battery, theft and homicide. We aim to give the user a rerouting to avoid going through these locations during their commute. We will have crime statistics up to date to have the most recent crimes available, these crimes will range to being a year old. The older crimes will be saved in our database for the user to see at their will, but for rerouting purposes, it will consider recent ones up to today. The program will be written in the Swift language to make annotations and alterations to the Mapkit. Mapkit is a Swift framework that allows programmers to make alterations to map apps as they see fit. The app will also require a database that will be built to store and stream in crimes. The app will stream in crime statistics from the Chicago Police application programming interface database, which is updated daily with newly logged crimes. Although crime is broadcasted on television, newspapers, or on websites, many Chicagoans are too busy to check these platforms frequently. Even though one may stay up to date on crime, using these platforms, only the highlighted crimes appear and there exist crimes that go unseen. The iOS app will be built using xCode software provided by Apple using the Swift 4.2 programming language.