The Regional Crime Analysis Program (ReCAP): a framework for mining data to catch criminals

Author

Brown, Donald E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. Eng., Virginia Univ., Charlottesville, VA, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1998

fDate

11-14 Oct 1998

Firstpage

2848

Abstract

Most law enforcement agencies today are faced with enormous quantities of data that must be processed and turned into useful information. Two technologies provide the means to turn data into information: data fusion and data mining. Data fusion organizes, combines and interprets information from multiple sources, and it overcomes confusion from conflicting reports and cluttered or noisy backgrounds. Data mining is concerned with the automatic discovery of patterns and relationships in large databases. This paper describes ReCAP (Regional Crime Analysis Program), which was built to provide crime analysts with both technologies

Keywords

data mining; police data processing; sensor fusion; very large databases; ReCAP; Regional Crime Analysis Program; automatic pattern discovery; cluttered backgrounds; conflicting reports; criminology; data fusion; data mining; large databases; law enforcement agencies; noisy backgrounds; Algorithm design and analysis; Cities and towns; Data engineering; Data mining; Database systems; Geographic Information Systems; Information analysis; Law enforcement; Spatial databases; Systems engineering and theory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1998. 1998 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4778-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1998.725094

Filename

725094