Editor’s Note
Greetings everyone! Welcome to the fall issue of the Crime Mapping & Analysis News. Our fall issue explores practical examples of the use of…
Letter from IACA President
This is a very exciting and busy time for the International Association of Crime Analysts. (IACA). Our first conference ever was held in Denver, Colorado. This year we are celebrating our 25th anniversary.
Mapping Smoking Violations on a College Campus: Implications for Prevention
Recent research has begun to use GIS to map the relationship between alcohol outlets and unwanted behavior in college communities, such as car accidents, violence, and overall crime. Such geographic analysis has been able to illustrate how problems cluster in space and time, which can aid campus police departments in preventing such incidents in or around campuses through proactive policing and other policy changes.
CPTED and Crime Analysis
The rise of the family of “place-based” crime prevention strategies, including Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED), Defensible Space), environmental criminology, and Situational Crime Prevention set a predicate for the evolution of modern GIS crime mapping, the use of GPS in crime scene forensics, Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM), and related digital systems that locate and predict crime and the pathways of crime.
A Case Study on License Plate Recognition (LPR): Coral Springs Police Department
Coral Springs Police Department in Florida use license plate recognition technology to solve crimes and save lives.
Lumen: Leveraging Unstructured Data to Enhance Crime Analysis
Police records contain an enormous amount of unstructured data. And yet, crime analysis to date focuses almost exclusively on information that is not found in a narrative but rather in structured data. Through hybrid enterprise search/structured search and analytics tools , analysts can create products that exploit the value of unstructured data in combination with the rich structured data they already use every day.
Upcoming Events
20th Anniversary SCIP (Strategic and Competitive Professionals) European Summit 3-5 November, 2015 Madrid, Spain https://www.scip.org/infoConference.php?ConferenceID=526 Maryland Criminal Justice Association 4-6 November, 2015 Ocean City,…
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