Milwaukee PD Ups The Ante On The Government Website
By: Joe Berkowitz
In an effort to energize the community about being more proactive with law enforcement, the Milwaukee Police Department’s website underwent some major retooling, with state-of-the-art results.
In 2009, the Milwaukee Police Department launched its Be a Force campaign, an effort to get the community more involved in working with local authorities on crime prevention. Now the organization has upgraded its online presence with a site that seems perhaps more befitting a Fortune 500 company.
Agency Cramer-Krasselt Milwaukee created the website as a pro bono assignment, working with LISS Interactive.
The first of its kind for a law enforcement agency, the site revolves around The Source, a feed of police news, and includes crime stats, FAQs with basic info like retrieving towed cars, profiles of fallen officers, and even a roundup of Milwaukee’s Most Wanted. But the site serves up its useful information in an atypically badass way---the experience comes complete with slick 3D photography and parallax scrolling.
Other police departments just got served.
