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  2. Crime mapping - Wikipedia

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    Crime mapping is used by analysts in law enforcement agencies to map, visualize, and analyze crime incident patterns. It is a key component of crime analysis and the CompStat policing strategy. Mapping crime, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), allows crime analysts to identify crime hot spots , along with other trends and patterns.

  3. Crime hotspots - Wikipedia

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    Crime hotspots are areas that have high crime intensity. These are usually visualized using a map. They are developed for researchers and analysts to examine geographic areas in relation to crime. Researchers and theorists examine the occurrence of hotspots in certain areas and why they happen, and analysts examine the techniques used to ...

  4. Book censorship in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Book censorship is the removal, suppression, or restricted circulation of literary, artistic, or educational material on the grounds that it is objectionable according to the standards applied by the censor. [1] The first instance of book censorship in what is now known as the United States, took place in 1637 in modern-day Quincy ...

  5. Geographic profiling - Wikipedia

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    Geographic profiling is a criminal investigative methodology that analyzes the locations of a connected series of crimes to determine the most probable area of offender residence. By incorporating both qualitative and quantitative methods, it assists in understanding spatial behaviour of an offender and focusing the investigation to a smaller ...

  6. Category:Crime mapping - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Crime mapping". The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . Crime mapping.

  7. List of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate

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    Violent crime rate per 100k population by state (2023) [1] This is a list of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate. It is typically expressed in units of incidents per 100,000 individuals per year; thus, a violent crime rate of 300 (per 100,000 inhabitants) in a population of 100,000 would mean 300 incidents of violent crime per year in that entire population, or 0.3% out of the total.

  8. Crime in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Property crime rates in the United States per 100,000 population beginning in 1960. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics. [needs update]Despite accusations, notably by Republicans and conservative media, of a "crime crisis" of soaring violent crime under Biden, FBI data indicated the violent crime rate had declined significantly during the president's first two years in office, after a spike ...

  9. No-go area - Wikipedia

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    A "no-go area" or "no-go zone" is a neighborhood or other geographic area where some or all outsiders are either physically prevented from entering or can enter at risk.. The term includes exclusion zones, which are areas that are officially kept off-limits by the government, such as border zones and military exclusion zon