Blog Post 8: Crime Heat Maps in DC

This site is focuses on real estate so they highlight schools, crime and other areas you would factor into buying or renting a place. The crime tab shows a heat map of the area using a red to green scale (Red meaning less safe, green meaning safe). It also has roll over information for certain crimes, Its not updated very frequently and doesn't update with all reported crimes maybe only a few in an area so the information provided should be taken with a grain of salt. Check out the map on the link below you can also look at other areas besides DC.

http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/Washington-District_Of_Columbia/crime/