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The Euclidean distance is measured by the measuring the distance between two points. (Paynich & Hill, 2014) He was concerned with where the child was shot and most of the fatal wounds were to the head. These were usually shot at a distance. The Bethlehem study is based on a 17 year old Christian Alsatian Johnny Thalijaya who was shot in front of his father in October of 2001 in Mayner Square. He was just yards from the church. He had a bag of rice in one hand and a small nephew in the other. He was not armed. He did not present a danger to the Israeli military encampment the outside of Bethlehem. He was shot twice in the chest and abdomen and died instantly. The Euclidean distance was 968 meters from Hindaza hill to where he was shot, …show more content…

(Paynich & Hill, 2014) You need to keep the different stories separated on different map and the maps should be to scale. Most officers and supervisors are very comfortable with point or pin maps, most of the request you get for maps will be for these types of maps. (Paynich & Hill, 2014) You should always remember scale and multiple points as key is to understanding and making your audience understand your pins maps. Showing multiple points on a map a small scale can just show there is a lot of crime. (Paynich & Hill, 2014) At certain scales, having multiple legend categories or showing every crime as a different symbol or marker can be confusing and a waste of time. Be comfortable with your spatial data as well as the attributes of the data behind each point. Know what it looks like when you zoom to a city wide level and how it changes as you zoom in to a specific beat or reporting district. Keep in mind that the audience does not understand the data as well as you do. And you need to use the simplest method when making pin maps.(Paynich & Hill, 2014) Remember that there are often multiple points under one single don’t on the map Somehow convey this message to the audience through graphs, charts, maybe an additional graduated point map or a hot spot map that shows those concentrations at one location. The underlying geography or landscape of a place can determine why the points are arranged as they …show more content…

Tactical maps are usually used to predict a new crime in a series or spree or identify where the suspects may live in a series of offense. With tactical mapping products you wait for the next offense to happen to create a new map and prediction and help catch the offender. There are only a few analyst across the country that ever do tactical analysis. This function seems to be increasing but it does require the analyst to work very closely with the case detectives and that relationship has to be nurtured over time. We could easily have a tactical set of what we call hot spot could map to track a crime clusters, spree, series or patterns of crimes that was originally identified at the administrative level. The person making the map needs to remember the purpose of the map and that the map is readable after spending the time on the map. Also that the map displays what the creator is trying to convey. Different people may use different maps for different reason. As long as the map conveys what it needs to over a short period of time that is all that is really important. Paynich, R., & Hill, B. (2014). Fundamentals of crime mapping (2nd Ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones &

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