These programs are an enormous waste of money. I took a geographic profiling course during undergrad expecting an interesting application of GIS and statistics.
It turned out to be a lot of handwaving to come to the obvious conclusion that most crimes are more likely to occur in some areas than others, along with the offender's residence.
It was taught by a former FBI agent, and his academic acumen was very...disillusioning.
What about the application to serial criminals, where you have one person committing a series of crimes over time. Wouldn’t geographic profiling and ML be better suited for this?
It turned out to be a lot of handwaving to come to the obvious conclusion that most crimes are more likely to occur in some areas than others, along with the offender's residence.
It was taught by a former FBI agent, and his academic acumen was very...disillusioning.