The Denver Post has introduced an interactive map that lets online users see what crimes are being reported in Denver neighborhoods and whether they are on the rise.

Dragging a computer mouse over a swath of the city on the map and clicking on it reveals Denver police statistics on offenses big and small.

The data is updated more than once a week, giving viewers a glimpse into crime trends and allowing them to compare neighborhoods.

The map is available at crime.denverpost.com.

Viewing a neighborhood offers various information about specifically reported crimes, including when and where it was reported.

Violent crimes are shown in red, while purple denotes property crime. Other crimes are shown in yellow.

Charts below the map indicate the number of crimes committed by day of the week, how often crime happens during certain times of the day and the addresses where crime is reported the most. Viewers can focus on their own neighborhoods or look at the city overall.

The map color of a neighborhood indicates how crime there is trending over the past 12 months — red for up, green for down and gray for “about average.”

Users can also focus on certain kinds of crime, from larceny and drug offenses to sex assault, robbery and homicide, as classified by the Denver Police Department.

Crime can be examined over 31 consecutive days.

“You can see what’s really happening in a community,” said Michelle Schoen, president of the Westwood Residents Association, who compiles Denver police crime statistics on her own and shares them with others in the neighborhood.

The Post’s crime map could be helpful, especially for people who aren’t able to study data in the same depth that she does, she said. “They might realize there’s something going on that no one was even aware of.”

A three-person team of data and interactive journalists from Digital First Media, The Post’s parent company, created the map in collaboration with others at The Post.