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Criminal justice tool using FBI Most Wanted data. Developed in Ruby on Rails using SQLite3 database. Built October 2020 as a Flatiron School pair project with Ashab Ahmed.

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Flatiron's Most Wanted

Crime-stoppers tool enabling both law enforcement and civilians to help solve cases. This app was made in collaboration with Ashab Ahmed.

Installation

Clone to local machine, bundle install, run migrations. Use 'rails s' to start local server and use application.

Functionality

Our app is built for two users - police officers and civilians.

Civialians are able to:

  • Search for crimes and view crimes in their area
  • Leave anonymous tips to alert law enforcement to potential leads
  • View updates on crimes from law enforcement
  • Civilians do not see tips posted by other civilians

Law enforcements are able to:

  • Create an account and register with a specific city field office
  • View all anonymous tips from civilians
  • Edit and post updates to crimes that are in their jurisdiction (field office)
  • Delete crimes in their jurisdiction
  • Add crimes in their jurisdiction

API

The data in this app was seeding from the FBI Most Wanted's database - https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/api

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Criminal justice tool using FBI Most Wanted data. Developed in Ruby on Rails using SQLite3 database. Built October 2020 as a Flatiron School pair project with Ashab Ahmed.

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