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Crime
These interactive maps let
users do their own research on crime trends in their area.
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St.
Cloud Times - Downtown After Dark
Downtown
After Dark presents downtown Minneapolis in a way that many St.
Cloud residents have never seen. The special "web-first presentation"
uses video, audio, photography, searchable databases, a map of city
bars and forums to bring out the nightlife of Minneapolis. |
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ChicagoCrime.org
ChicagoCrime.org
offers a browsable database of 90-days of crime incidents and
locations in the Chicago area. It was created by Adrian
Holovaty, lead developer of World Online at the
Lawrence (KS) Journal World. He
used Google Maps and
data from the Chicago Police Department's Citizen
ICAM. Users
can also find which day had the most and fewest crimes, which
crimes
are most reported and which locations experience the most crime.
Also offered are RSS feeds specified for each police beat and
city block.
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Los
Angeles Times' Mortal Wounds
LA
Times' "Mortal Wounds" presents "a chilling map of
violent lawlessness." The interactive map includes a "Find
Your Neighborhood" feature which locates unsolved murders,
as well as each crime's proximity to local schools. Photographs,
articles and interviews offer a deeper look at the unsolved homicides
lingering in Central and South LA. |
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Crime Tracker
The
Tampa Tribune, Tampa's News Channel 8 (WFLA-TV) and Tampa bay Online
have compiled crime data from the past four years into an easy-to-use
map. Crimes such as arson, burglary, and drug offenses are dotted
on a map that users can zoom and pan around. Detailed information
for each crime is also available with the click of a mouse. TBO.com
is constantly updating its crime tracker with new counties and data
for past years. |
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Crime
in Everett's Neighborhoods
(click "Launch Interactive Map Now"
link)
The
Herald in Everett, WA, analyzed more than 35,000 crime reports from
2001 and 2002 and presented its findings in an interactive map of
19 Everett neighborhoods. Users can click buttons to get color-coded
breakdowns of crime categories such as violence, drugs or burglaries,
or they can click on a specific neighborhood to get detailed crime
statistics for that area. The data is also searchable through a
non-grahical HTML form for those without the Macromedia Flash player. |
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