Stac Hot Spot Areas: a Statistical Tool for Law Enforcement Decisions
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The last ten or fifteen years have seen a quiet revolution in criminology and criminal justice. There has been a vast improvement in the quality and quantity of data, and in the availability of that data to decisionmakers. Sufficient information is now available so that basic indicators related to criminal justice issues can be measured with a degree of precision that was not only unknown a few years ago, but was even unanticipated. Contrary to conventional wisdom, we are not plagued by a dearth of information in criminal justice (Block, 1989). The problem is just the opposite. There are often so many pieces of information that it is impossible for the human mind to assimilate them, to sort them out, and to use them for tactical or crime analysis decisions before the window of opportunity has passed.
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