Drane won't reveal revenues but says he expects SpotCrime to edge into the black next year.

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Drane just rolled out a national iPhone app that will pick up crime feeds in any city.

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Bradley says that upon discovering the mistake, he immediately emailed and phoned prosecutor, Linda Drane Burdick, and Sgt.

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The data can also be viewed on iPhone apps Drane has created for the cities of New York, London, San Francisco and Baltimore.

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Getting an early fix on where robberies and shootings occur may let people discover crime hot spots before they boil over, says Drane.

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Drane awoke one morning with the idea of using his car's global positioning system as a model--until he discovered that it, too, had been stolen.

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Drane's rivals charge police departments for repackaging and transmitting data.

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Colin Drane recalls a crime spree that unfolded near his home in Baltimore a few years ago just as scrap metal prices were on the rise: Copper downspouts were disappearing.

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Since then Drane, an infomercial marketer and inventor of products like the Trunkanizer (organizes groceries in your trunk) and the Invisilift (enhances a woman's bustline), is pitching a data-serving invention: SpotCrime.

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