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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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    There are many theories of crime that explain why crime occurs in certain places and why crime does not in others. Place theories look at crime at specific places, which can also be viewed as "points on a map." [2] Another crime theory used in regard to crime hotspots is neighborhood theories. These theories view crime at a larger level, and in ...

  4. Crime analysis - Wikipedia

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    Crime analysis employs data mining, crime mapping, statistics, research methods, desktop publishing, charting, presentation skills, critical thinking, and a solid understanding of criminal behavior. In this sense, a crime analyst serves as a combination of an information systems specialist, a statistician, a researcher, a criminologist, a ...

  5. Geographic profiling - Wikipedia

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    The theoretical foundation of geographic profiling is in environmental criminology. [5] Key concepts include: Journey-to-crime; Supports the notion that crimes are likely to occur closer to an offender’s home and follow a distance-decay function (DDF) with crimes less likely to occur the further away an offender is from their home base.

  6. CompStat - Wikipedia

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    CompStat is a management system created in April 1994 by Bill Bratton and Jack Maple, whom Bratton met while he was chief of the New York City Transit Police and later hired as the New York Police Department's top anti-crime specialist when he became Police Commissioner in 1993. [1]

  7. Why the Perception That Crime Is Rising Persists - AOL

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    This is where looking under the hood of the data becomes useful for real crime analysis. In fact, the raw number of crimes is much higher. In 1998 there were 119,724 violent criminal offenses ...

  8. Why playing it safe on immigration and crime could be a big ...

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    Not calling out his ideas for the mass deportation of undocumented migrants, for example, or the pressure he wants to put on local governments to adopt tougher policing tactics is a cautious ...

  9. CrimeView - Wikipedia

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    CrimeView connects to an agency's existing crime records or reporting system and automatically converts tabular data into locations on a map. Many police departments use CrimeView as part of their CompStat process and Watch Commanders utilize the software in order to help determine the placement of officers in the field.