There are three sites out there doing crime reports. The only issue is that a one-day or two-day snapshot of crimes does not tell you how bad (or good) a neighborhood is. You would need to pull up stats for a longer time frame like 6 months or a year to get that view.

The DPD has Neighborhood Police Officers who interface with CrimeWatch groups and Neighborhood Associations all over Dallas.

Your best bet is to call the DPD substation for your future domicile and ask them to refer you to the proper crimewatch group.

These four sites (including mine) all use the DPD’s Incident Reports Database, which is updated each morning at 1230am.

After calling around the country, I cannot find a city as transparent as Dallas when it comes to having this kind of information handy.

Many cities use another website (see list) that they pay to go into their databases each day and pull out the crimes they need (eg Plano).

http://www.SpotCrime.com - based in Baltimore(see previous post)

http://www.CrimeReports.com - collects fees ($99 to $249 per month) from different departments to compile stats and post them as google maps. Plano and North Richland Hills use them. I think they grab the DPD public database too. Income is from fees, no advertising.

http://www.CrimeReportsLive.com - Went live in December, offers stats based on ZIP codes, charges fees for some services. All ads seem to be from google

http://www.DailyCrimeReport.com (yes, my site) - takes the DPD reports, filters them by beats and (registered) neighborhood groups, creates webpages for each beat and notifies subscribers every morning about updates.
No charge for service, earns revenue on advertising. Provides historical data reports for a fee.