For tactical crime analysts and officers:
I have often considered writing a very basic guide for tactical crime pattern identification, to be used by officers, investigators, and analysts as they work the field. It would not be academic nor technical; rather, it would give people actually working in the trenches a tool to think about how to look for crime patterns in the seas of information they face. It would not be based on statistics or geography, or any sophisticated analytical techniques. It is about being aware of and understanding the actual qualitative data, the words in narratives, the words that describe people, places, and things that occur in crime patterns. Qualitative data gives meaning and significance to analysis.
But writing such a book might be like writing a dictionary - time-consuming and quite exhausting. Thus, I will post some of the things I think would be helpful in the realm of qualitative crime pattern identification in posts on this blog, intermingled with other posts. Then, eventually, I'll gather them all together in some sort of document to share.
If you are a new analyst or new officer in a local level policing agency, you may not know what kinds of crimes might be committed by the same individual. Read this post to see a long list of categories that might be helpful.
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