🕵️ CrimeWatch

CrimeWatch is a tool that produces a heatmap of criminal cases with reported judgments as found on eLitigation. It scrapes data from the site using BeautifulSoup and processes it for analysis.

🚧 Status

CrimeWatch is currently in development.

• ✅ Web scraper is built
• ❌ Heatmap feature is not functional yet

📥 Installation

To run CrimeWatch, install the required dependencies:

pip install pandas requests beautifulsoup4 ftfy spacy

and run:

python crimewatcher.py

🔍 Data Retrieval

The scraper currently retrieves the following fields:

• 🆔 CaseIdentifier
• ⚖️ Charges
• 📍 Locations
• 🔑 Offence Category
• 📅 Year
• 🔗 URL

🚀 Usage

Once installed, you can run the scraper to fetch case data. The heatmap visualization is not yet available.

🤝 Contributing

CrimeWatch is a work in progress. Contributions are welcome, especially for improving data visualization and refining scraped data.

📜 License

This project is open-source under the MIT License.