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Track: Emergency Management and Public Safety
Anak Agung
Rutgers University
33 Livingston Avenue Suite 544
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Telephone: 908-932-3133 x585
Fax: 908-932-2363
E-mail: agung@rci.rutgers.edu
Crime Hot Spot Analysis and Dynamic Pin Map
Defining Issue: Analyzing spatial and temporal pattern of crime based on police offense data. The purpose of analysis is to identify areas that tend to have high crime incidents. GIS Solution: The paper demonstrates how GIS can be an effective tool to visualize the spatial distribution of crime events in a dynamic way and to analyze the spatial patterns of crime to define crime hot spots. Methodology: The GIS application presented in this paper is developed to utilize police offense data more effectively in order to simulate crime events over a period of time. Based on the location of every crime event, the program will perform geocoding, and from the time and type of crime, a dynamic visualization of crime can be simulated to analyze if the incidents show any spatial or temporal pattern. By analyzing the spatial continuity of crime events, the program will define hot spots to identify which areas need special attention as far as crime prevention programs are concerned. Software: The application was
written in Avenue script for ArcView
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