Noah Fritz, CMAP Director

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

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What is crime mapping?
Analytical Tool for conducting

• Temporal Analysis (Time/Date)
• Spatial Analysis (Location/Patterns)
• Geographic Deployment
• Beat/District Boundary Configuration
• Criminal Profiling (Geographic Criminology)

Crime analysis should be to policing what market
research is to business!
Anatomy of Crime Mapping
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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
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How is Crime Mapping Being Used?
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Where instead of Who?

• Wolfgangs Theory of Juvenile Delinquency
• Small cohort of juvenile offenders are
  responsible
• for a large portion of the crime

• 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

Lawrence Sherman
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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

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Sphere of Crime Analysis
Administrative C/A
Strategic C/A
Problem Solving
Resource Allocation Studies
Tactical C/A
Crime Series Analysis
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Washington DC ATM Robbery Locations
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ATM Robbery Locations with Washington DC Metro
Transit Overlay
Forecasting
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Buffering (Radius Analysis)
CFS and Crime Data
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Investigative Leads
End of 1st Lecture
Zoom View
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ALL REPORTED INCIDENTS OF THREATS AND
INTIMIDATION FROM 7/1/97 TO 6/30/98
ANALYSIS AND RESULTS
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132 Threats
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PUEBLO, COLORADO
Boundary Maps / Redistricting
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Community Maps - Internet Exercise

• What makes a good map?
• Question of Privacy and Security?
• Question of Timeliness?