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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Although there are many criminals who commit crime simply for the rush of adrenaline or, perhaps, for the promise of infamy, there are many more criminals who commit crime simply because they don’t think they will get caught. They go to great lengths to make sure they wear a mask and gloves. They go to another city or town to commit crime so they won’t be recognized in order to benefit from the advantage of anonymity. And sometimes, people commit crime simply because they think they have anonymity, so they don’t think there is any way they can get caught.
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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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Stuart Adams, at the SociaLies blog recently published a post titled, “Trick or Tweet? Is Twitter a Viable Emergency Notification System?” In the post, he discusses the recent widespread adoption of Twitter in law enforcement, emergency services, and city governments as an emergency notification tool. He ends the post with a question:
Are we setting ourselves up for the big bang by increasing our reliance upon social media for emergency news, rather than what this media was intended for originally?
My answer: Yes (and no).
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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.
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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