CBS News recently posted a story on its website, accompanied by the video posted below, about how parole and probation manpower is stretched so thin with case loads that they cannot adequately track and monitor sex offenders. The result of this lack of resources can be seen in the lax supervision of Philip Garrido and Anthony Sowell.
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Usually, here at The Crime Map, we focus on domestic crime mapping and analysis, but I came across this cool case study that examines population shifts/density, crime mapping, and analysis. For example, although Turkey experienced a 10% overall increase in crime since 2004, a population growth analysis shows that crime per 100,000 citizens actually decreased by 10.7%.
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Computer use in law enforcement has made many things possible that were once either impossible or laboriously time consuming. The Internet has exploded these possibilities even further. While there are quite a few software products out there specifically designed for crime analysis, often times these products are expensive and out of the reach for many crime analysts. However, some of my most useful tools are free.
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A number of Google’s tools have found there way into my daily work product. One of the neatest in my Google bag of tricks is the use of Google Alerts.
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