Learning to detect patterns of crime

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Our goal is to automatically detect patterns of crime. Among a large set of crimes that happen every year in a major city, it is challenging, time-consuming, and labor-intensive for crime analysts to determine which ones may have been committed by the same individual(s). If automated, data-driven tools for crime pattern detection are made available to assist analysts, these tools could help police to better understand patterns of crime, leading to more precise attribution of past crimes, and the apprehension of suspects. To do this, we propose a pattern detection algorithm called Series Finder, that grows a pattern of discovered crimes from within a database, starting from a "seed" of a few crimes. Series Finder incorporates both the common characteristics of all patterns and the unique aspects of each specific pattern, and has had promising results on a decade's worth of crime pattern data collected by the Crime Analysis Unit of the Cambridge Police Department. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.

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Wang, T., Rudin, C., Wagner, D., & Sevieri, R. (2013). Learning to detect patterns of crime. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 8190 LNAI, pp. 515–530). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40994-3_33

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