Crime GIS

Written by Paul Couch Saturday, 07 July 2007 09:54

Crime Geography and GIS: A Break and Enter Crime Analysis of Ottawa, Ontario Using CrimeStat

This analysis examines a variety of methods used to determine hotspots of criminal activity for commercial and residential break and enter (B & E) crimes using Crimestat. The information was supplied by the Ottawa Police department and consists of point data marking the locations of each crime from January 2005 to March 2006. 

Patterns of crime activity were measured using the following methods: the Fuzzy mode, the Nearest Neighbor Hierarchical spatial clustering technique, the Risk Adjusted Nearest Neighbor Hierarchical spatial clustering technique, the Knox Index, the Single Kernel density estimation, and the Dual Kernel density estimation.