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UK Crime Maps: Every Street
July 30, 2008 | Telegraph.co.uk

Police departments in England and Wales plan to publish crime maps on the web that give residents there access to the locations of assaults, muggings and burglaries. The departments have been doing this type of mapping for some time, but have not released it for public view.


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