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Archived Industry Notes: Government
Published in 2007

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How does crime look in your city?

It's crime information meets MapQuest. New interactive maps let crime info get more specific, more visual and more useful. It's a question real estate agent Jim Boyer can't answer: Is this a safe neighborhood? “It's kind of a no-no to steer people into buying or not buying in an area," said Boyer, who's based in Minnetonka. "I have to give them other resources.”

When he and other agents do, city police departments usually take the calls. Sometimes it's just a call a week. Other weeks, it's 10.Because of these calls and others, a group of 13 cities, four of them in the west metro, got together with their shared technology group and found a solution: interactive crime maps. … Thus far, Minnetonka's (view their crime maps here) the first of the 13 cities to put the application online. The city doesn't include more serious crimes, such as homicides, on its map because, well, they're aren't many.

Details Here: www.startribune.com/106/story/905036.html

first published week of:   01/08/2007

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