Noah Fritz, CMAP Director President of International Association of Crime Analysts

What is “crime mapping”? Temporal Analysis (Time/Date) Spatial Analysis (Location/Patterns) Geographic Deployment Beat/District Boundary Configuration Criminal Profiling (Geographic Criminology) Analytical Tool for conducting: Anatomy of Crime Mapping “Crime analysis should be to policing what market research is to business!”

Points, Lines and Polygons Point Street Light Bus Stop Crime Location Line Street / River Polygon/Area Neighborhood Police Beat Point Line Area Liz Groff - CMRC

How is Crime Mapping Being Used?

Where instead of Who? 323,000 calls for service, 3% of places produced 50% of dispatches Only 5% of 115,000 addresses accounted for 100% of the predatory crime calls (robbery, criminal sexual conduct, auto theft). FUTURE CRIME IS 6 TIMES MORE PREDICTABLE BY LOCALE THAN BY OFFENDER FUTURE CRIME IS 6 TIMES MORE PREDICTABLE BY LOCALE THAN BY OFFENDER ~Lawrence Sherman~ Wolfgang’s Theory of Juvenile Delinquency – –Small cohort of juvenile offenders are responsible for a large portion of the crime

What is “crime analysis?” Crime Analysis is the professional practice and analytical process for identifying crime trends, patterns, criminals and operational strategies; and producing administrative reports. Three (3) basic types of Crime Analysis

Sphere of Crime Analysis Tactical C/A AdministrativeC/A Strategic C/A Crime Series Analysis Problem Solving Resource Allocation Studies

Washington DC ATM Robbery Locations

ATM Robbery Locations with Washington DC Metro Transit Overlay Forecasting

Buffering (Radius Analysis) CFS and Crime Data

Investigative Leads Zoom View End of 1 st Lecture

ALL REPORTED INCIDENTS OF THREATS AND INTIMIDATION FROM 7/1/97 TO 6/30/98 ANALYSIS AND RESULTS

132 Threats

PUEBLO, COLORADO Boundary Maps / Redistricting

Community Maps - Internet Exercise What makes a good map? Question of Privacy and Security? Question of Timeliness?