Exam 13: Analyzing Problems: Application of Techniques Part I

The percentage of vehicles that have been stolen in a jurisdiction and subsequently found is called:

In a city with 50 burglaries in Year 1 and 65 burglaries in Year 2, what is the percent change?

Temporal analysis is important for understanding problems because it provides information about when the crimes are occurring for short term patrol deployment.

When computing the number of burglaries at apartment units rate), apartment units is the:

Which city or cities has the highest crime rate?

Depicting crime counts by four week periods instead of by month is:

Three stages of a crime include:

Crosstabulation is often used in crime analysis to examine:

The number of Part I crimes in an area divided by the number of people living in the area multiplied by 100,000 is called:

The ratio of crimes that have been resolved through arrest and exceptional means is called:

Strategic crime analysts use time of day/day of week analysis and weighted time span analysis to determine long term trends in crime.

"Anticipatory benefit" is when:

Typically, the time unit most often used in strategic crime analysis to describe a problem is a month.

Typically, the largest time unit used in strategic crime analysis to describe a problem is a month.

When computing the number of burglaries at apartment units rate), number of burglaries is the:

In the following chart, which time of day/day of week contains the highest number of calls:

Which type of chart is best to compare proportions of a variable in two time periods?

Crime analysts use three rates regularly: crime rate, arrest rate, and recovery rate.

In a city with no homicides in Year 1 and 5 in Year 2, what is the percent change?

Most crime statistics published by the FBI on a national level are tabulated