CMI: Crime Mapping Initiative in Brownsville, PA

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CMI Crime Mapping Initiative in Brownsville, PA

• By
• Thomas R. Mueller, Ph.D.
• California University of PA
• WV GIS Conference 2004

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Cal U and GIS

• MMVRPZ Commission
• Boat Launches
• Tourism Map for Brownsville
• Industrial Parks
• GIS Education
• NextCrime Mapping

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Crime Mapping and Rural Areas

• GIS is being used predominately by large police
  departments
• 13,000 Police departments serving populations
  less that 50,000
• 14 were using Crime Mapping
• Decline

Hickman 2001
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Brownsville Set Up

• Ask the officials
• 911 has Street Line Database
• Students IRB Approval
• Students get real world experience and the towns
  get a helpful deliverable

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Where is Uniontown?
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The Brownsville Connection

• Discussion with Mayor on Other Projects
• Summer Project 2002
• Summer 2003 and Fall 2003 trial
• Project begins in Spring 2004
• Geo code criminal data with Street Database
• Use Excel

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Brownsville Database

• Collected one month of data
• Only Certain Crimes (Not all data)
• Geo coded crimes using ArcView
• Take Excel to Dbase to ArcView
• Problems 7 Match

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Crimes in the Database

• Only map certain calls for service
• Hang ups, assisting, and outside of the town
• No Domestic Abuse Crimes
• No Juvenile Crimes
• Eliminates about 50 of database

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Problems

• No given street address
• No given street number
• Too general of a street
• Street does not exist

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Still Not a 100 Geo coding

• Discussed the Issues with the Mayor
• Changes in Spring 2004
• Up to 90 Geo-coded

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Still Not a 100 Geo coding

• Discussed the Issues with the Mayor
• Changes in Spring 2004
• Up t 90 Geo-coded

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The Next Steps

• Weekly reports will be provided to Brownsville
• Hope to be able to move to Daily Reports
• New Course Crime Mapping and Spatial Analysis
• Add new towns.