Criminal incident data association using the OLAP technology

  • Authors:
  • Song Lin;Donald E. Brown

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Virginia, VA;Department of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Virginia, VA

  • Venue:
  • ISI'03 Proceedings of the 1st NSF/NIJ conference on Intelligence and security informatics
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Associating criminal incidents committed by the same person is important in crime analysis. In this paper, we introduce concepts from OLAP (online-analytical processing) and data-mining to resolve this issue. The criminal incidents are modeled into an OLAP data cube; a measurement function, called the outlier score function is defined on the cube cells. When the score is significant enough, we say that the incidents contained in the cell are associated with each other. The method can be used with a variety of criminal incident features to include the locations of the crimes for spatial analysis. We applied this association method to the robbery dataset of Richmond, Virginia. Results show that this method can effectively solve the problem of criminal incident association.