Your Mobile CPTED Analysis Tool

CivicEye is a dynamic mobile application designed to empower residents and streamline proactive code enforcement, transforming citizens into the first line of defense against community disorder and crime. Developed as a solution for municipalities with overburdened code enforcement and police departments, CivicEye shifts the focus from reactive enforcement to community-centered, proactive CPTED compliance.

In rapidly growing cities, code officers are stretched thin, and police resources are rightfully dedicated to investigating serious crime. This leaves critical CPTED violations—like failed lighting, neglected landscaping, and physical blight—unreported and unremedied, allowing the "Broken Windows" to proliferate and invite crime.

CivicEye puts the principles of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) directly into the hands of residents and municipal staff, facilitating the immediate identification and tracking of disorder before it escalates into crime.

• Photo Reporting: Residents use their phone camera to document a violation (e.g., overgrown hedge blocking a sidewalk, graffiti, burnt-out street light).
• CPTED Tagging: The app provides simple, non-technical prompts to categorize the issue based on its CPTED impact:
  
  • Territoriality Failure: (e.g., damaged fence, lack of signage)
  • Natural Surveillance Blockage: (e.g., excessive vegetation, failed lighting)
  • Maintenance Failure: (e.g., excessive litter, abandoned item)
• Geo-Location & Data Capture: The app automatically tags the location via GPS and logs the date and time, creating actionable, verifiable data points.

• Digital Audit Tool: Code Enforcement and CPTED Practitioners use the app to conduct formal CPTED assessments and compliance checks, replacing paper forms.
• Remedy Tracking: For every reported violation, the app generates a standard CPTED-based remedy (e.g., Remedy: Increase illumination to 1.8 foot-candles) and allows the officer to track compliance deadlines and close out the case digitally.
• Heatmap Integration: Data collected by both residents and staff automatically populates a municipal heatmap, allowing department heads to visualize emerging hotspots of disorder (code violations) alongside police data on crime, proving the correlation and guiding resource allocation.

• Compliance Toolkit: When a violation is reported, the app can automatically share educational material with the property owner explaining the CPTED principle that was violated and how the remedy (e.g., pruning a tree) is a low-cost measure to prevent high-cost crime (like burglary).
• Compliance Over Penalty: CivicEye supports a system where the first notification is a CPTED educational warning, prioritizing swift compliance over immediate financial penalty.