Geo-Profiling

Geographic Crime Analysis (Geo-Profiling)

A relatively recent development in crime analysis is the concept of geo-profiling. This method emphasizes the geographic patterns of the crime, such as:

• where a victim is selected,
• where the crime was actually committed,
• the travel route used to dispose of a body,
• where and how the body is disposed of, and
• the relative isolation of the crime scene.

All of this information tells something about the suspect’s mobility, method of transportation, potential area of residence, and ability to traverse barriers - such as crossing state lines or going over bridges. Some professionals view geo- profiling as a sub-specialty of profiling, while others see it as an entirely different approach. Geographic profiling, sometimes known as geoforensics, involves geological profiling, which helps to organize an abundance of information via geographical links in order to accelerate the apprehension process.

However, when the data is provided from numerous sources, the ability to synthesize geographic information is severely limited. This is a result of inaccurate geographic information and the bedrock of the analysis is the location attributes of the location. This cannot be efficiently performed without multiple location identification attributes.

GFI's Geocode® increases the productivity in geospatial analysis, reduces the data overhead for transmission of geospatial information over telecommunication networks, enables the representation of a pinpoint location down to within 3 cm horizontally and 1 meter vertically, and enables better information security by eliminating the use of alpha text characters necessary for most decryption techniques.

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