When you watch the local news channel what types of stories do you usually find? Celebrities behaving badly, lost dog finds its way home, Johny Do-good saves the day. These are all common news stories but the backbone of the news is crime. Nothing gets peoples attention like murder, robberies, and high speed chases. If you happen to be someone who is deeply interested in the safety of your community. How would you find all the related data. Thankfully the news folks know what you want, and provide easy ways to interact with the data in the form of maps. Take for example the city of Dallas website http://www.dallascityhall.com/index.html at this site you can query an interactive map to show you locations of robberies, assaults, and many other crimes.
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