Hot Spot Analysis
Title: Hot Spot Analysis
Category: /Science & Technology
Details: Words: 2910 | Pages: 11 (approximately 235 words/page)
Hot Spot Analysis
Category: /Science & Technology
Details: Words: 2910 | Pages: 11 (approximately 235 words/page)
Crime Hotspot Analysis using CrimeStat
Grant Buhay
Introduction:
The concept of Geographical Information Systems and profiling is not new to the
area of Community Policing. Mechanical methods of point pattern analysis and
data separation have been benefiting society ever since Dr. Snow\'s landmark
discovery of the tainted well ( Waters 1995). The analysis of spatial and temporal
data has been critical to the successes of many criminal investigations. Buzzwords such as \"geographic, criminal and psychological profiling\"
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program and programs like it, provide users with the ability to create intelligent maps that allow us to extrapolate information into predictive models. This \"modular approach\" of expanding and developing specific software supplements, empowers the user by providing new applications and dynamic methodologies, to the static and expensive cartographic / GIS software nuclei ( Anselin, L., 1998). The strength of these analyses cannot stand alone and requires an intelligent user to make intelligent choices to provide meaningful results.