1. GIS
The first is a synoptic overview of criminal activity for a given area of interest. ... A car may be stolen at one site and recovered at another. ... It is also possible to attach scanned images and documents to this database if desired (see Figure 2). ... A Police Sergeant, for example, may look at a cluster of pins on a map and recognise that crimes occur on a certain street because it is not regularly patrolled by patrol cars: "The field experience of the officers and their familiarity with the data concerned is frequently a more powerful tool than any formalised methodology- (Mitchel...
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