Tag: Crime Mapping
Heat Maps in GIS
Heat mapping, from a geographic perspective, is a method of showing the geographic clustering of a phenomenon. Also known as hot spot mapping, heat maps show locations of higher densities of geographic entities. The ‘heat’ in the term refers to the concentration of the geographic entity within any given spot, not to be confused with [...]
Crime Mapping and Analysis
The advent of easy-to-use GIS applications has allowed crime mapping and analysis to flourish within law enforcement agencies. Software, training and resources are easily available to those interest in this use of GIS. Sara Barbour from Miller/McCune magazine writes a summary article on the use of GIS to predict criminal behavior in GIS: Cops Favor New [...]
Crime Mapping and the Los Angeles Police
The Los Angeles Police Department’s attempts at providing public mapping has not been without its issues and embarrassments. Chronicled here are the various issues and advances with mapping crime in Los Angeles. 1,380 Crimes At One Point September 20, 2008: The Los Angeles Times highlighted the distortion caused by geocoding undecipherable addresses to a default [...]
CompStat Under Question
A survey of more than a hundred retired police officials has raised some questions about the accuracy of crime reporting in New York: “The retired members of the force reported that they were aware over the years of instances of “ethically inappropriate” changes to complaints of crimes in the seven categories measured by the department’s [...]
Online Crime Mapping Bad for Housing Values?
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is warning that the recent launch of the national United Kingdom online crime mapping publication could result in a reduction in housing values for some neighborhoods in England and Wales. A spokesman for RICS said, “Whilst RICS fully supports efforts by the government to reduce instances of crime, [...]
