Deck 11: Describing, Analyzing, and Disseminating Known Patterns

Question 1

As part of crime analysts' pattern analysis process for micro-time hot spots, they have to determine all of the following criteria except:

A)The size of the jurisdiction
B)Characteristics of the offender
C)The zoning
D)The type of crime being examined

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which is the emergence of several closely related crimes within a few minutes' travel distance from one another?

A)Micro-time hot spot
B)Spatial analysis
C)Hot prey
D)Tempogram

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Patterns are often found by linking MO factors alone.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The most appropriate time series method for examining a pattern of ten robberies is:

A)Exact time series analysis
B)Exact day of the week analysis
C)Exact time of day/day of week analysis
D)Weighted time span analysis

Question 5

When describing the temporal nature of patterns, which are not appropriate?

A)Mean
B)Time of day
C)Standard deviation
D)Both A and C

Question 6

Crime pattern bulletins include a title, summary, list of cases, map, and time series analysis.

Question 7

Which chart would be most appropriate to show robberies committed by a suspect to support a drug habit that may occur closer together in time than other robberies?

A)Chart showing cross-tabulation
B)Chart displaying time of day and day of week
C)Chart displaying intervals between events
D)Tempogram

Question 8

There are several types of tactical bulletins, including pattern bulletins, persons' bulletins, and property bulletins.

Question 9

Which type of analysis would be most appropriate in examining the exact time of occurrence in a robbery or a sexual assault?

A)Temporal analysis
B)Spatial analysis
C)Exact time series analysis
D)Tactical analysis

Question 10

Which information would not be found in a pattern bulletin?

A)Field interview and other information
B)Date/time span of report
C)Map of the incidents in the pattern
D)Property taken (if any)

Question 11

Which is used to disseminate crime pattern and other tactical information to officers, detectives, and citizens?

A)Tempogram
B)Dissemination
C)Cross-tabulation
D)Pattern Bulletins

Question 12

When describing suspect and vehicle patterns and conflicting information arises, the analyst has to be sure of what?

A)Start over so there is no conflicting information
B)The one description that is most relevant
C)To note the differing descriptions
D)Ignore the conflicting information

Question 13

Components of a crime pattern bulletin include all of the following except:

A)A matrix of key variables of cases in the pattern
B)A map
C)The names of the officers who took the reports
D)A time series chart

Question 14

As an analyst, describing the MO of a pattern should focus on:

A)One particular case
B)Those characteristics that are shared by all cases and distinguish the pattern
C)Come up with concrete and confident conclusions
D)Analyst do not look at patterns describing MO

Question 15

The most appropriate method for examining five car burglaries is:

A)Exact time series analysis
B)Exact time of day/day of week analysis
C)Exact date: Intervals between events
D)Weighted time span analysis

Question 16

In which type of analysis are single symbol maps used by enable analysts to examine the geographic nature of the crimes and begin to identify patterns?

A)Spatial analysis
B)Tactical
C)Temporal
D)Exact time series analysis

Question 17

Weighted time span computes

A)The number of cases per hour of the day
B)The percentage of hours that the cases fall
C)Each hour within a time span as a proportion of that time span
D)Each hour is added together for each case

Question 18

Police use the information in tactical crime analysis bulletins to raise citizen awareness, to try to catch offenders, to investigate crimes further, to clear old cases, and to prevent future crimes.

Question 19

It is important to describe every case's suspect and vehicle description in the final pattern bulletin.

Question 20

Which would show a count of crime by both time of day and time of week?

A)Cross-tabulation
B)Spatial analysis
C)Temporal analysis
D)Tempogram

Question 21

All stores in a pattern in which 3 of 12 stores were victimized would be listed under the "property taken" portion of a pattern bulletin.

Question 22

Hot prey is the most common type of pattern identified by crime analysts.

Question 23

Police produce "sanitized" bulletins to disseminate and raise citizen awareness, to try to catch offenders, to investigate crimes further, to clear old cases, and to prevent future crimes.

Question 24

Fifteen burglaries could be presented in in a single pattern bulletin.

Question 25

Micro-time hot spots are stable overtime.

Question 26

In recent years, police agencies distribute bulletins through mail because it's less expensive.

Question 27

Pattern discussion boards don't allow police officers to post information unless they are a chief.

Question 28

Two black males approached victim outside of victim's home and demanded money.Suspect(s)fired five gunshots.This is an example of a MO

Question 29

Analyst want to be careful not to assume too much about patterns or offender when conducting analysis of intervals between events because many different factors can influence the time between incidents

Question 30

The patterns identified by crime analysts are educated guesses about the relationships among incidents based on a variety of characteristics