Every day, our system reads hundreds of news reports from Nigerian, Ghanaian and Kenyan publishers. Any story that mentions crime, unrest or a security incident in a specific area is captured automatically. No humans needed to click through articles.

A kidnapping is far more serious than a phone theft. So we treat them differently. Serious incidents lower the score more. If the police foil a robbery or arrest a suspect, that good news actually improves the score. The outcome of every incident counts, not just the incident itself.

A robbery that happened three weeks ago should not make an area look dangerous today if nothing else has happened since. Every incident gradually loses its weight over time. If a neighbourhood stays quiet, its score improves automatically. The number you see always reflects right now.

Every score passes through a quality check before it goes live. Each location is pinned to an official government boundary code used by the UN in Nigeria. You can trace every score back to the exact news articles that created it. There is nothing hidden and nothing invented.