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Geographic Profiling at the ATF - The ATF has published a Fact Sheet on their use of Geographic Profiling. Please click here to view the Fact Sheet.
Linking serial residential burglary – “Geographical and temporal proximity possessed a high degree of predictive accuracy in distinguishing linked from unlinked pairs as assessed by logistic regression and receiver operating characteristic analyses”. Journal of Investigative Psychology and OffenderProfiling, Volume 7 Issue 2, Pages 91 – 107, May 2010.
CSI: NY TV Show – In “Dead Reckoning” (Season 6, Episode 4). Geographic Profiling is used when assessing suspects in a complicated murder case. CBC - CSI:NY
Heavy Rain Play Station 3 - Geographic Profiling integrated into game Added Reality Interface (ARI). Heavy Rain. http://www.heavyrainps3.com
Numb3rs TV show - In "Devil Girl" (season 6, episode 13) Geographic Profiling used when the team searches for a serial killer who is targeting men who solicit prostitutes. CBS. www.cbs.com
Research Professor Kim Rossmo has won a grant ( $440,000 USD) from the nonprofit research institute Stanford Research International to develop his Geographic Profiling in Counter-Terrorism project. The project will seek to identify terrorists' patterns of behavior and movements before an attack.
Abstract: "Border control is a crucial component of national security. For a country the size of the United States, however, the length of its land borders and coastlines poses a significant security challenge. Illegal migrant workers, drug couriers, foreign terrorists, smugglers, fugitives, and other criminals benefit from the geographic range and porous nature of American borders. The purpose of this research was to identify facilitating and inhibiting factors of illegal land border crossings in order to determine physical and human geographic features related to the probability of such movement. Identifying the geographic patterns of illegal migration can help the Border Patrol optimize resource allocation and anticipate offender reactions."
(Security Journal, Issue 21, 2008; Palgrave Macmillian - English)
(www.palgrave-journals.com)
Paramount Pictures has released a movie about the "Zodiac" serial killer that terrorized the San
Francisco Bay area in the late 1960's.
The website ( www.zodiacmovie.com )
contains interviews with 3 contemporary forensic experts:
Dr. Gerald McMenamin, a forensic linguistics expert;
Dr. Kim Rossmo, an expert on geographic profiling; and
Sharon Pagaling-Hagan, a Criminal Profiler
(January 2008 - English)
International Association of Chiefs of Police Excellence in Criminal Investigations Award - Irvine California Police Department wins international award for police work involving geographic profiling.
University of Texas - Arlington criminal justice studies graduate solves crime using geographic profiling for Arlington Police Department (Fall 2006 - English)
Police Technology may help military - A “geographic profiling” system first implemented by Canadian police to help locate and apprehend serial criminals is now being evaluated by the Canadian military for use in counter-insurgency operations overseas (RCMP Gazette Vol 70, Nov 1, 2008).
Toronto Police Services makes arrest based on geographic profile - An alleged sexual predator on the loose for a year was snared by geo-profiling. Sex Crimes Unit investigators called upon D/Const Manny San Pedro, a geographic profiling analyst at Corporate Planning, to put his knowledge to work on a long series of occurrences.
Link to the Toronto Police Service's Journal
Orange County Register - Burglar case nets police award - Irvine CA Police Department wins international award for police work involving geographic profiling
Numb3rs TV show - Inspired by actual cases and experiences, NUMB3RS depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime. An FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a very distinctive perspective CBS. www.cbs.com
New Zealand Fire Service - A discussion with Rhonda Trahern ( Geographic Profiler) on the use of Geographic Profiling in arson investigations October / November 2005 Issue #13 The NewZealand Fire Service Magazine. www.fire.org.nz
Orange County Register - Irvine 'chair burglar' suspect arrested - A man suspected of being the "chair burglar" has been arrested by Irvine police, and thousands of pieces of jewelry believed to be connected with the case are on display today at the police station, officials said.
November 5, 2005 Orange County Register. www.ocregister.com
Geoplace.com - Geographic profiling has
significant potential as a tool for counter-insurgency.
The U.S. National Technology Alliance (NTA) completed an
evaluation of whether these types of analysis tools
would be useful to aid in the hunt for insurgents,
weapons caches and sources of bomb materials, thereby
reducing civilian and military casualties... ( English
October 2005 ).
Svenska Dagbladet - Kartor nytt sätt få fast brottslingar - Med
hjälp av karta och en ny analysmetod ska brottslingar ringas in mer
effektivt. I höst kommer sju nya så kallade geografiska analytiker
att utbildas inom polisen. Metoden har visat sig stämma i sju av tio fall
när den använts i andra länder. (Swedish). 13 August 2005
Svenska Dagbladet. www.svd.se
Focus - Das MOderne Nachrichtenmagazin - Suche nach dem Ankerpunkt. Wie
Geoprofiling hilft, den Wohynort von Serientätern einzukreissen
(German). 11 April 2005 Focus. www.focus.de
Algemeen Politieblad - Waar ben je? - Geographic profiler Bert Adrianens
speurt naar seriedaders.... Geographic profiling geeft een antworord op de
vraag die in een rechercheonderzoek nog ..... (Dutch language). December
2004.
Sambandet - Gärningsmannen rings in med
analysis.... A Swedish Police Magazine article on Geographic Profiling (Swedish
language). Summer 2004.
London
Times Online - Science has provided a new twist to
the Ripper case. The modern police mantra that "offenders don’t go where
they don't know" has given rise to the technique of geographic profiling. 11
March 2004.
St.
Petersburg Times - Software aids in searches for suspects - ...Wilfong, a
27-year agency veteran, is the only Sheriff's Office employee dedicated full
time to geographic profiling. [...] "She was right on the money," said Sgt.
Kathy Hamilton-Scott patrol supervisor. "Everything they have done for us so
far has been fantastic. I can't say enough about it." 16 Feb 2004.
De
Limburger - A Dutch newspaper report on using Geographic Profiling in The
Netherlands (Dutch language). 30 December 2003.
Canadian
geographic profiler investigates NSW murder - A Canadian geographic profiler
is helping the NSW police investigate the murder of a 23 year old Southern
Highlands woman. The body of Rachelle Childs was found in bushland near the
South Coast village of Gerroa in June 2001 she was last seen alive in the
Southern Highlands town of Bargo the night before. In a first for homicide
cases in NSW, police have conducted DNA tests on more than 100 people from the
two towns and have invited geographic profiler, Detective Sergeant Scot Filer
of the Royal Canadian Mountain police to help investigate the location of the
murderer... Australian Broadcasting Corp. July 24th, 2003
Financial
Times Deutschland - A German newspaper report on geographic profiling
(German language only). July 16, 2003
Frankfurter
Allgemeine - A German newspaper reports on psychological and geographic
profiling (German language only). April 13, 2003
Mapping
the criminal mind - The public's fascination for criminal profiling appears
endless. One of the latest methods is geographic profiling, which aims to track
down where a serial criminal lives from their crime locations. Former Canadian
beat cop Kim Rossmo... New Scientist, 26 April 2003.
The Hound of the Data Points - "Rossmo, 47, is the inventor and most
zealous proponent of criminal geographic targeting (CGT), more commonly known
as geographic profiling. He uses CGT to hunt society's most dangerous game:
violent serial criminals -- arsonists, rapists and murderers whose taste for
carnage seems only to sharpen with time, and who tend to programmatically
continue their offenses until they are caught." Popular Science,
April 2003.
Highlights:
Geographic Profiling - "When international news media focused attention on
the series of sniper killings in suburban Washington, DC, last fall, it sparked
renewed interest in forensic profiling, the science of utilizing psychology as
well as a newer technique called geographic profiling to identify, locate and
capture serial criminals." The Prosecutor, pp. 42 - 43, National
District Attorneys Association, January/February 2003.
Washington Sniper Case - Geographic profiler Kim
Rossmo assists Montgomery Country (Maryland) police in investigation of fatal
shootings. See coverage at:
Geographic
Profiling: A new Tool for Crime Analysts - "The advanced crime analysis
technique of geographic profiling has proven very successful over the last
decade in case of serial violent crime... a new program has been developed to
introduce this technique to crime analysts at local police departments..."
Crime Mapping News, page 5 - 8, The Police Foundation, Washington
DC - Summer 2002.
High-tech
hunter stalks crimnial prey - If police profiler Brad Moore is on the case,
a Lanark County arsonist should be very worried... Ottawa Citizen, July 30th,
2002.
Two
former police officers join call for investigation - Two former Vancouver
city police officers have joined the call for an investigation into the
handling of the missing women case. Geographic profiler Kim Rossmo and retired
inspector Doug MacKay-Dunn say an investigation is needed... The Province,
Vancouver Canada - March 16th, 2002.
Puffy-faced
rapist pleads guilty - The Strongsville suspect linked by law enforcement
agencies to smash-and-grab incidents and sexual attacks in serveral Cleveland,
Ohio's south western suburbs pleaded guilty to a number of charges... The Sun
Star, Cleveland Ohio USA, - Joanne B. duMound - March 7th, 2002.
Lion Den ( English ) - For criminologists the scene of a crime is like a
perpetrator's visiting card: From the traces left behind they draw conclusions
about his character. Meanwhile it is generally recognized that recidivists even
give indications of their place of residence by their choice of the scene of
the crime... Der Spiegel, Germany - February , 2002
Zeroing
In on a Killer - "Geoprofiling - the science of predicting where
criminals live based upon where they commit crimes - was transformed this year
from an academic novelity into a mainstream crime-fighting technique. It is now
used by Scotland Yard, the F.B.I, the RCMP, ...." - New York Times Magazine,
Shane Dubow - December 9th, 2001.
Coordinates of a killer - Investigating a string of homicides in Spokane
Washington, detectives used Geo-spatial techniques to narrow their list of
suspects, eventually arresting Robert Lee Yates for 13 murders - November
2001.
Article
on Geographic Profiling - Globe & Mail - "To catch a serial killer,
geographic profiling is where it's at" - Jane Armstrong - August 25th, 2001
Rossmo assists investigation -
Geographic profiling expert working on case of missing women.
Technology
Trends: Geographical Profiling - Katherine Ramsland
Robert Pickton: The Vancouver Missing Women - Michael Newton
Readers
Digest March 2001 - Article on Kim Rossmo
SFU
News - Serial criminals software - 06-06-96
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