Crime Mapping and Analysis Program
About the Program
Welcome to the crime mapping program at Washington College! Crime mapping is a pro-active tool that helps law enforcement to allocate patrol and specialized expertise in their own communities as well as across traditional political boundaries. Washington College’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Geographic Information Systems Program (GIS) are working under the sponsorship of the Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention to maximize the use of crime mapping in more rural, less populated areas of the state and strengthen regional data sharing to combat crime. Using GIS software tools, project teams extract crime data from a variety of state and local law enforcement agency databases, layer specific offenses with other relevant markers and create visualizations of crime trends and patterns. State and local crime analysts can then compare mapped data with other intelligence resources.
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