About HomeInvasions.org

Why this exists

Our founder survived a violent home invasion and later learned another had happened three blocks away. Had they known, they would have taken more precautions. HomeInvasions.org exists so you can know what is happening near your home.

How incidents are found and rated

We gather reports from police statements and news coverage, and from accounts people choose to share with us. Every entry is labelled with one of four credibility levels, so you can see how well it can be verified.

Confirmed: A police service reported this incident.
Corroborated: A personal account that matches a news or police report.
Reported: One or more news outlets reported this incident. No police statement was found.
Unverified: A personal account we could not match to a news or police report. Treat with caution.

Privacy rules

We never publish the names of victims or of accused people, and never exact addresses. Locations on the map are always approximate. Submissions are checked before anything appears, and identifying details are removed.

Corrections

If something is wrong, or reveals more than it should, use "Report a problem" on the entry. An entry reported for revealing someone's identity or exact address is hidden right away while we check it. For other problems, an entry is hidden once several different people have reported it.

Data and map attributions

Postal-code and place data: GeoNames (geonames.org), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Map tiles: OpenFreeMap.
Map display: MapLibre.