Crime Analysis in Wasington, D.C.Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are used in many law enforcement agencies to analyze crime patterns in a community. Over the last 9 months, the City of Washington, D.C. has seen an increase in residential burglaries. In order to help the police, your job is to analyze the burglary patterns and determine what other factors may be contributing to the problem. When the police better understand the problem, they will be able to alter their patrols and hopefully reduce the number of burglaries.In this exercise students will examine crime data (burglaries only) from Washington, D.C. Using ArcView GIS, students will geocode (address match) some local businesses and then compare the spatial locations of the businesses with the crimes to determine if there is any correlation between the two Before you begin this lesson you will need to download the data that is used throughout the exercise. The dataset for this lesson is available in .ZIP or .EXE format. Using the .EXE file, the data will be extracted to the correct folder when you double-click the downloaded file to execute it. If you are unable to download the .EXE file due to your network or service provider's security measures, download the .ZIP file and be sure to extract the data to the folder indicated in the lesson instructions. If you cannot download either of the files available here, contact your system administrator. If you have any questions, send an e-mail to K-12@esricanada.com.
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