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Specific
Crime Analysis Functions:
1.
Crime Pattern Detection:
Collecting
information related to the discerned patterns, and identification
of possible suspects.
2.
Crime/Suspect Correlation: Matching a suspect to a crime by
examining career criminal files, suspect vehicle files, AKA files,
parole and probation reports, modus operandi files (MO's), and
field interrogation files.
3.
Target Profiling: Analysis of victimization and premises data
by geographic area and providing information for focused tactical
responses;
4.
Forecasting Crime Potentials/Trends: Through a combination of
causal and statistical analysis determine when and where the next
incidents in the pattern will occur and attempt to stop the
occurrence of the identified crime pattern;
Criminal
Investigative Analysis:
Criminal
investigative analysis is the analysis of crime patterns in order
to identify the personality and behavioral characteristics of
offenders who commit the crime of rape and homicide techniques
required to identify the serial nature of crimes, the type of
person who commits these crimes, their crime scene patterns, and
the offender's motivation for committing such offenses.
Through this analysis of crime scene characteristics, the
profiling includes developing a portrait of the most likely type
of offender, (i.e. his/her age, range, race, family background,
sexual history, work history, appearance, lifestyle and other
important personal information) which can be used by investigators
to narrow the list of suspects and focus on investigations.
Criminal
Intelligence Analysis:
Focuses on criminal activities that are generally hidden from the
public and police view. Understanding such crimes against
society, recognizing and identifying structural crime activities,
developing information sources and the ethical and legal
constraints in dealing with such offenses will be examined.
The course further deals with understanding these crimes through
using basic analytical techniques and often using graphical rather
than quantitative methods. Techniques currently used are
link diagrams, conduct telephone toll analysis, perform
hierarchical analysis, prepare visual investigative analysis, and
conduct basic financial analysis in search of crime derived monies
and other assets.
This
concludes a basic overview of the Crime Analysis Unit and some of
the routine functions in which the Bexar County Sheriff's Office
Crime Analysis Unit performs. If we can be of any assistance to
you, please contact us.
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