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Corporate sneakiness. Government waste. Technology run amok. Outright scams. The Red Tape Chronicles is MSNBC.com's effort to unmask these 21st Century headaches and offer real solutions that save you time and money.

Bob Sullivan covers Internet scams and consumer fraud for MSNBC.com. He is the winner of multiple journalism awards for his coverage of online crime and author of Gotcha Capitalism: How Hidden Fees Rip You Off Every Day and What You Can Do About It. and Your Evil Twin: Behind the Identity Theft Epidemic.

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Interactive maps reveal crime next door

Posted: Sunday, October 5 2008 at 05:51 pm CT by Bob Sullivan

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Think there's a lot of crime in your neighborhood? Now there's an easy way to find out. In this latest Red Tape Chronicles video, we explore the fast-growing segment of Web sites that marry police data to interactive maps, allowing residents to easily check up on their neighborhood's crime rate.

You can watch the video by clicking here. It was produced by NBC's Colleen Sanvido with help from Andrew Gross, and edited by David Bentley. The three-dimensional graphics come courtesty of NBC's Patrick Longstreth.

To read more about the crime-mapping services, click on this earlier entry.

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