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Track: Emergency Management and Public Safety
Monica Alexander
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department
601 E Trade St
Charlotte, NC 28202
Telephone: 704-336-8783
Fax: 704-336-7799
E-mail: pdmla@mail.charmeck.nc.us
Elizabeth Groff, Laura Hibdon
An Automated System for the Identification and Prioritization of Rape Suspects
Many law enforcement agencies, including the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, have successfully integrated crime incident mapping into their crime analysis activities. Geocoding and display of various incident types by times of day, days of week, and methods of operation are routinely done by analysts and utilized by patrol officers. However, those types of activities are merely the most elementary uses for a geographic information system (GIS). Additionally, higher level GIS functionality can be utilized to support investigative activities. One area that may particularly benefit from suspect identification is rape investigations. Unfortunately, most GISs do not have the off-the-shelf capability necessary to perform this function. However, through the development of a hybrid application, in this case a spatial decision support system (SDSS) that incorporates the concept of an expert system (ES) and utilizes dynamic data exchange (DDE) - this problem can be solved. The purpose of this project
is to integrate the functionality of ArcView and Access with the knowledge base of rape investigators to create an SDSS for use in identifying and ranking rape suspects.
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