Official Course Description: MCCCD Approval: 6-22-2004

MCCCD Official Course Competencies:

CIA260  2004 Fall – 2013 Spring

Analysis Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

1.

Describe what a Geographic Information System (GIS) is as it applies to crime and intelligence analysis functions. (I)

2.

Describe the four basic requirements for geocoding address data and identify the best method to ensure address matching. (II)

3.

Open ArcView and use the menu, button, and tool bars to create a new project. (III)

4.

Create thematic legends for the graphic items in a map display. (III)

5.

Produce professional looking layouts for printing that will answer a specific analysis question, provide additional analysis options, and answer a question related to trends, clusters, patterns, or high crime areas. (III)

6.

Create a bar chart of reported crimes in a beat boundary. (III)

7.

Create a new table in ArcView and add fields and records. (III)

8.

Manipulate tables in ArcView and perform joins, links, spatial joins, and editing operations. (III)

9.

Conduct spatial queries and find geographic relationships among themes in a View document to produce charts and subsets of data for other types of analysis. (III)

10.

Perform directed crime analysis functions and customize the Graphical User Interface (GUI) interface using instructor- selected scripts. (III)

11.

Perform crime analysis on a set of crime data using instructor-selected extensions. (III)

12.

Describe how crime theory can be used in crime mapping. (IV)

13.

Define the five types of crime patterns. (IV)

14.

Create a beat boundary polygon and use it to compare two years' worth of crimes within that beat. (V)

15.

Establish "hotspots" of criminal activity in a geographic area using several methods and software applications (Crime Stat, Thematic Map, Cluster Map, Animal Movement Extension) to develop hotspot detection and reporting using ArcView GIS. (VI)

16.

Create a crime bulletin to assist investigators in predicting the next date, time of day, and location of the next hit in the series using a robbery series of crimes. (VII)

17.

Create a simple map, bulletin, and chart for a tactical crime analysis robbery series assignment using ArcView. (VII)

18.

Create a crime bulletin using the MS Access Bulletin Maker program in conjunction with ArcView. (VIII)

MCCCD Official Course Outline:

CIA260  2004 Fall – 2013 Spring

Analysis Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

I. Overview of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

A. GIS in a law enforcement setting

B. History of GIS in law enforcement

II. Geocoding

A. Street centerline file

1. Setting the Geocoding properties for the Street File

2. Us Streets versus. Us Streets with Zone

B. Geocoding process and error awareness

1. Good street centerline file

2. Street indexes established

3. Good address data in file

4. Intersections versus Addresses

III. ArcView GIS Software

A. Project window

B. Project specifics during save process

1. Path name

2. Window placement and size

3. Joins, links, and selected records

4. Attribute tables and cleaning up

C. Views

1. View Graphical User Interface (GUI)

a. Menu items

b. Buttons

c. Tools

2. Table of contents

3. Map display

4. Themes

5. Legends

a. Points

b. Lines

c. Polygons

d. Features versus points, lines and polygons

6. Palette tool window

a. Fill palette

b. Line palette

c. Font palette

d. Marker palette

e. Color palette

f. Load palette

7. Linked attribute table data and graphic

8. ACTIVE versus SELECTED versus TURNED ON

D. Layouts

1. Layout GUI

a. Menu items

b. Tools

c. Buttons

2. Frame tool

a. View frame

b. Using the Quick Layout from View Window

c. Legend frame

d. Scale bar frame

e. North arrow frame

f. Table frame

g. Chart frame

h. Object frame

i. Neat lines

j. Professional map minimums

1) North arrow

2) Title

3) Legend

4) Scale bar

5) Map

6) Created by or disclaimer text

E. Charts

1. Dynamically linked to tables

2. Time of day chart

F. Tables

1. Table GUI

a. Menu items

b. Buttons

c. Tools

2. Fields and records

a. Adding a new field

b. Editing field data

c. New tables

3. Joining

4. Spatial joins

5. Linking two tables

6. Spatial queries

G. Scripts

1. Using scripts

2. Customizing the GUI to add a script button

3. Crime analysis script samples

4. Sources

H. Extensions

1. Scripts

2. Buttons

3. Tools

4. Crime analysis extensions

a. Environmental Systems Research Institute (ERSI) Crime Analysis Extension

b. Beat book tool

c. Crime View

d. Animal Movement

e. Sources for more

IV. Crime Theory

A. Awareness space

1. Nodes

2. Paths

3. Mental maps

B. Marauder versus commuter behavior

C. Trend, pattern, cluster, series, and spree definitions

V. Administrative GIS Analysis

A. Yearly or monthly general maps showing boundaries

B. Non-specific crime maps for an entire area

C. General hot spot maps of an entire city

D. Drawing polygon beat boundaries

E. Citywide hot spot maps

1. New view and add themes

2. Using a script to add XY coordinates to tabular data

3. Using Crime Stat to create nearest neighbor clusters

a. Set parameters and measurements

b. Identify primary file

c. Identify fields with XY coordinates

d. Nearest neighbor statistics

e. Save as appropriate shapefile type

f. Presenting and explaining a map with thematic legend to users

4. Using ArcView Spatial Analyst Extension

a. Cell size

b. Search radius

c. Graduated color map using standard deviation classification

5. Using Animal Movement Extension

a. Graduated color map using standard deviation classification

b. Path tool

c. Other features

VI. Strategic GIS Analysis

A. Focused maps of a crime area

B. Time period comparison (percent change)

C. Hot spots within a hot spot

D. Possible reoccurring problem and resources planning

E. Monthly or weekly analysis versus yearly

F. Strategic mapping methods

1. Raster or shaded grid

2. Vector or cluster

3. Graduated pin

G. Scanning, Analyzing, Responding, and Assessing (SARA) model

H. SARA versus Collect, Collate, Analyze, Disseminate, and Evaluate (CCADE)

VII. Tactical GIS Analysis

A. Reoccurring problem in specific area(s)

B. Testing and prediction

C. Objectives

1. Locating information to aide investigators

a. Data sources (people)

1)     Citation and traffic crash

2)     2) Probation and field interrogations

3)     3) Other sources

b. Data sources (events)

1) Other crimes in area

2) Other incidents (CFS)

2. Analysis

a. Day of week

1)     Single Temporal Distributions

2)     2) Range Temporal Distributions

b. Date of next hit

1) Days between hits

2) Dollars per day

c. Time of day

1) Weighted versus midpoint

2) Combining single dates and ranges

d. Location of next hit

1) Probability rectangles, ellipses, and others

2) Distance from last hit

3) Distance from geographic features

4) Pattern analysis

5) Path analysis

6) Probability surface puts it all together

3. Timely revisions

a. Next crime provides more information

b. What is timely?

D. Bulletins

1. Crime prediction

a. Day of week

b. Time of day

c. Location

d. Next date

e. Pattern recognition

2. Predict potential suspect anchor point or residence location

a. Crime Stat

b. Other methods

3. Evaluation and revision

4. Disclaimers

VIII. Other Tools

A. Access

1. Bulletin maker

2. Exporting files from ArcView

3. Database file versus text

B. Spreadsheet charting and reporting

C. Word processing

1. Bulletin

2. Importing and exporting

D. Crystal reports