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What is Crime Analysis?
Answer: There are many misconceptions about crime analysis.
Those who do not work in law
enforcement may think the
crime analyst is either a
criminalist, an individual
who goes to crime scenes to
collect or analyze evidence;
or a criminologist, an
individual who studies
criminal behavior. Within
law enforcement itself there
are misconceptions about the
role of the crime analyst. A
crime analyst may primarily
be seen as a “numbers
cruncher” or statistician.
Although statistics are used
in analyzing crimes, this is
only one aspect of the many
facets of crime analysis.
There are 3 Types of Crime
Analysis: Administrative,
Strategic, and Tactical.
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ADMINISTRATIVE - Deals with long-range comparisons (quarterly, semi-annually
or annually). Examples of
administrative crime
analysis tasks include
providing economic,
geographic, and law
enforcement information to
police management, city
hall, city council, and
neighborhood/citizen groups.
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STRATEGIC
- Concerned with long-range
problems and projections of
long-term increases or
decreases in crime (crime
trends). Strategic analysis
also includes the
preparation of crime
statistical summaries,
resource acquisition, and
allocation studies.
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TACTICAL
- An analytical process that
provides information used to
assist operations personnel
(patrol and investigative
officers) in identifying
specific and immediate crime
trends, patterns, series,
sprees, and hotspots,
providing investigative
leads, and clearing cases.
Analysis includes
associating criminal
activity by method of the
crime, time, date,
location, suspect, vehicle,
and other types of
information.
I'm looking to move my family/business into Pembroke Pines,
what is the crime/activity
in a certain area?
Answer: Whether you are
moving into Pembroke Pines,
work or live in Pembroke
Pines, there are several
ways you can look up the
activity in a certain area.
For the most recent
information:
Please go to:
http://www.ppines.com/police/statistics.html
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Select the month you are
interested in, click on your
area to see a map of all
crimes occurring within your
block
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Click Here to View Incident
Details (top of the map). A
spreadsheet will display.
In addition to looking at
crime statistics, one should
do the following when moving
into a home or a business:
• Visit the area at
different times of the day
and days of the week.
• Drive and WALK around the
area. If you are not
comfortable walking in the
area, it is probably not a
good idea to move there.
• Talk to residents of the
area. They may have
information about the goings
on that you will not see by
just walking through.
• Check the condition of the
area for signs of
deterioration; graffiti,
maintenance of yards,
fences, parking lots,
behavior of the residents,
etc.
• Most importantly, adhere
to you own subjective
judgments of the area.
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