YOUR COMMENTS

Mina, do you have any idea what Crime Analysts do? You say you want cops doing "real police work". Analysts let "cops be cops" by helping a department police smarter, not harder. Educate yourself on the profession, it is more than just telling people where crime is. It would be like saying a doctor only tells people if they are sick or not.
- D Williams, Rock Hill, SC

What the hell don't you guys get about this map?? It's run by Dave Mara to benefit Dave Mara!!! He runs it!!!! He puts up the marks...he takes 'em down.... He can make a smiley face on it if he chooses......it's not an independent survey!!! It's just more Mara propaganda!!! Wake up already!!
- Hector G., Manchester

Seems good if it wasn't just one step to a police state! Think about it people... Crime is not that bad here in the Queen City, Boston who has bad crime got ranked 4th safest largest city recently.. So we here in Manchester have nothing to complain about!!!!! But think what you want.. When the random stops and ID checks start happening to you, you will know!
- T, Manchester,NH

Hey Becca, good thing for you the Chief lives in Bedford. You'll be well protected.
- Dale A., Manchester

A slap in the face to West Side residents??

Ryan, I don't know if you're looking at the same map, but there's a whole lot more crime happening on the east side of the river. (Especially since most of the city lies east of the Merrimack River.)
- William Smith, Manchester, NH

I'd like to see bars and "private clubs" mapped in with these crimes. I suspect there is a correlation. If so, maybe we should consider having part of each liquor license fee go toward local law enforcement.

Maybe the arrested should be charged with an enforcement fee in addition to a crime.
- Peter Sorrentino, Manchester

Right on cue, the Jaskolka/Leidemer sour grape contingent starts whining. Imagine, a police chief using data and technology as part of the management process! The nerve of Dave Mara, utilizing all the tools available to confront the crisis! The nerve!
- Richard, Manchester

I think this is a good idea. I have already bookmarked it and will view it for my own inquiries.
- J, Manchester

Although the police do a great job, they usually respond after the crime has been committed . I also sleep with a loaded gun and my wife and son are experienced gun users. We as a family have discussed what we would do if someone tried to invade our home at night.
It really comes down to taking the challenge of defending yourself until the police can arrive. I think this is a sad commentary on the violent society that we have become.
- Tom W, Candia

This map is really just a big slap in the face to west side residents.. What happened to that place?
- Ryan, Londonderry

The site is nice, but will response time for help imorove?
- Ward 2, Manchester

At this point Frank Guinta is a lame duck.
For the next approximately 2 months minus a holiday or two or three don't expect much as his administration spirals into shutdown.

Chief Mara inherited all of Manchesters problems from the last half a dozen or so of police chiefs that have come and gone. To be honest with you 220 is not enough for the city. Manchester is no different than New York, Los Angeles, Boston, or Chicago. Being smaller it's aggregate crime rate is on average with
the other bigger cities. If Manchester was bigger we would have more crime than what we got now.

To be honest we should have closer to 300 but we don't have resources for that many unless we bring back the walking beats which in my opinion, we should do.
The last time I remembered a police office walking anywhere was back in 1986.

You can't reach out to the community from inside your police car as you jumping from one call to another which is what police work seems to be today.
- Jack Alex, Manchester

More Chief Mirror "news". All he does is talk about himself and his way of community policing. Meanwhile, the map shows so much crime. Violent crime is up. He fiddles while Rome burns.
- Becca, Bedford

Some people like Dave D will never be happy. There is no downside to the website. It provides people with a little more information than they had before. Grow up.
- Joe, Manchester

The map is a cool site, maybe now Guinta and Mara can see we don't need crime analysts to see where crimes are. The rest of the site is PR. Give us a choice between PR and more cops on the street- we want cops doing real police work. Stop the rising violence.
- Mina, Manchester

Nice concept. As a co-captain of the neighborhood watch group; Neighbors 2 Neighbors, we have done the very same thing for our part of watch area for two years now. We would use this data to show areas of 'interest' when it came to tagging or vandalism. We also would use the data to map out areas of concern where drug activity was a possibility. We would share that information with Manchester's Community Policing Unit. Hopefully not too much information is shared with this crime mapping data or otherwise those doing drug activity will keep away from areas seen as 'not productive' for their illegal activities. Another good tool against fighting crime. Remember, "Take Time, Report Crime".
- Robert M Tarr, Manchester

We had a project like this back at Southside around 1983, using the address of the arrested via the District Court listings in the Union Leader. Most of the arrested lived in the same area where this map shows the crimes taken place today. Nothing has really changed, except today's crimes are extended more north from Lake Ave./Spruce St., or the "Zone" has been extended.

Closing places like the Zoo and Flo's might have been a bad thing, police always knew where to look for their "guys".
- Scott, Manchester

So now we're all supposed to watch the little marks on the map disappear, and say "Oh wow! crime is down!! The marks on Cheif Mara's map are going away!!" Good job sir!!". But who's in charge of those marks? Remember, David Copperfield made people think the statue of Liberty disappeared too...
- Dave D, Manchester

I feel safe alright. Never slept before with in hands reach of my loaded gun at night, also built a little stand next to the bed for my loaded rifle. Not going to end up the next statistic on their chart.
- Jack Alex, Manchester