Racial Justice and Predictive Policing
Local governments are reevaluating how technology, including artificial intelligence, is used in policing efforts and its role in creating public good.
Local governments are reevaluating how technology, including artificial intelligence, is used in policing efforts and its role in creating public good.
With most adults carrying mobile devices that have GPS tracking capabilities, mapping our movements has never been easier.
GIS is being used to better understand current and potentially future patterns of vandalism.
The use of GIS and spatial analysis has become an important tool in understanding crime patterns.
This article takes a look at methods which demonstrate the wide and growing field of crime prevention utilizing spatial and GIS approaches.
GIS has proven to be an immensely useful tool for police interdiction operations and crime prevention. One area, in particular, that has benefited from GIS is combating drug trafficking.
A new study by researchers at Sam Houston State University found that the use of GIS is widespread in analyzing crime data but that almost no … Read more
Heat mapping, from a geographic perspective, is a method of showing the geographic clustering of a phenomenon. Sometimes also referred as hot spot mapping, heat maps show … Read more
The advent of easy-to-use GIS applications has allowed crime mapping and analysis to flourish within law enforcement agencies.
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 … Read more
The geographic profiling concept proposes that criminals tend to commit acts of crimes within a comfort zone located near but not too close to their residence.
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 … Read more