Plotting Crime, Street by Street

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D.C. police have launched a new crime-mapping tool on the department's Web site, allowing anyone to create a map of a sliver of the city and immediately see what crimes have happened there this year.
Cartoonish icons are used to pinpoint crimes. If you map your neighborhood, you do not want the Zorro-like mask to pop up -- it indicates an armed holdup. Or worse, the red figure of a person lying in the street, which denotes a homicide. The site also features goblin-looking masks for muggings, money sacks for thefts, gas cans for arsons and cracked houses for b