Deck 11: Tactical Crime Analysis

Question 1

Tactical crime analysis involves identifying emerging crime patterns as soon as possible

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Tactical crime analysis does not involve working with the police department to address the identified pattern.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

When a crime pattern occurs in a relatively small area, it is referred to as a "hot spot" or a cluster.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

A report from the IACA, entitled "Crime Pattern Definitions for Tactical Analysis," began to set standards for crime analysis definitions and for procedures.

Question 5

According to the IACA, a crime pattern is exactly the same as a crime trend

Question 6

A Hot Spot refers to a group of similar crimes committed by one or more individuals at locations within close proximity to one another.

Question 7

To analyze a crime pattern carefully, the crime analyst must pull together all of the available and relevant information in order to know as much as possible about the crime pattern

Question 8

Tactical crime analysts may develop their own format for reports and bulletins because there is no available software developed to help crime analysts create a crime analysis bulletin

Question 9

Having communicated the existence of a crime pattern through a bulletin or report, the tactical crime analyst's job is completed

Question 10

After reporting a crime pattern, the tactical crime analyst will work with other units within the department to come up with strategies to address the crime pattern

Question 11

Tactical crime analysts must have a true understanding of the nature of crime, criminals and the social dynamics of the jurisdiction in which they work

Question 12

Tactical analysis and the identification of crime patterns require tactical responses, which are fast and effective responses that stop a crime pattern

Question 13

An effective response to a crime pattern might involve passing new laws

Question 14

One target hardening tactic is installing security alarms

Question 15

A properly designed CompStat-style system can make excellent use of crime analysis

Question 16

It takes more than two events to consider a series of related crimes a pattern

Question 17

Tactical crime analysis is about identifying crime patterns and helping a police department or investigators to _______.

A) Better understand a crime pattern or crime problem
B) Figure out how to put a positive spin on the problem
C) Hide the problem from the press
D) Give it a more positive name

Question 18

It has been said that tactical crime analysis involves pattern detection, linkage analysis for suspect-crime correlations, target profiling and ______________.

A) Crime prevention
B) Search and seizure missions
C) Offender movement patterns
D) Rounding up the usual suspects

Question 19

Tactical crime analysis typically involves both identifying emerging crime patterns as soon as possible and ______________.

A) Solving that problem within 24 hours
B) Analyzing carefully any identified crime patterns
C) Processing petty offenders
D) Solving the thefts that occur in shops

Question 20

Pattern detection occurs when offenses are reported during a relatively short period of time and the crime analyst is able to ______________.

A) Go out in the field to solve the offense
B) Analyze all of the reasons why there were flaws in the way the department operates
C) Identify common attributes among those offenses
D) Stay in the crime center where it is safe

Question 21

When a crime pattern occurs in a relatively small area, it is referred to as a ______________ or a cluster.

A) Hot spot
B) Data mine
C) Burn center
D) Bad neighborhood

Question 22

The tactical analysis of ______________is a primary responsibility of crime analysts at police agencies around the U. S.

A) Crime causes
B) Crime patterns
C) Police brutality
D) Offender profiles

Question 23

The profession of crime analysis lacks a ______________, and the terms crime pattern, crime series, hot spot, crime trend and crime problem are often used interchangeably.

A) Dictionary
B) Code of ethics
C) Common language
D) Business nomenclature

Question 24

The International Association of Crime Analysts (IACA) in 2011 chartered the Standards, Methods, & Technology Committee (SMT) to begin to define "analytical methodologies, technologies, and core concepts relevant to the profession of _______."

A) Detective
B) Patrol officer
C) Social media
D) Crime analysis

Question 25

The SMT Committee of the IACA issued a report, entitled "Crime Pattern Definitions for Tactical Analysis," that began to set standards for ______________ .

A) Police patrol officers
B) Investigators and detectives
C) Crime analysis definitions and for procedures
D) Police chiefs

Question 26

According to the IACA report "Crime Pattern Definitions for Tactical Analysis," a crime pattern is a ______________.

A) Group of hot spots in which prostitution flourishes
B) Group of two or more crimes reported to or discovered by police that are unique
C) Group of 10 or more crimes
D) Group of plans for criminal activities

Question 27

Crime patterns are unique, but share at least one common factor, which could be the type of crime, the behavior of the offenders or victims or ______________.

A) The property taken
B) The patrol officer who first arrived on the scene
C) The crime analyst who worked the cases
D) The state where the crimes occurred

Question 28

One other aspect defining a crime pattern is that there is no known relationship between the victim(s) and the offender(s); this means that they are ______________ .

A) Domestic violence cases
B) Crimes involving bloods relatives
C) Stranger-on-stranger crimes
D) Neighborhood disputes

Question 29

According to the IACA, a crime pattern is different from a crime trend because a crime trend is a _______.

A) Short-term decline in crime
B) Persistent, long-term rise or fall in crime
C) Crime wave that ends rapidly
D) Days-long crime spree

Question 30

A main characteristic of a crime trend is that it is a crime problem that is _______.

A) Over in a flash
B) Designed to terrorize a city
C) Episodic and infrequent
D) Chronic in duration and persistent in frequency

Question 31

According to Gwinn (2011), there are _______ common types of crime patterns.

A) Four
B) Five
C) Six
D) Seven

Question 32

Three of the primary crime pattern types are a Series, a Spree, and ______________.

A) Hot spot
B) Hot prey
C) Cold case
D) Homicidal rampage

Question 33

A Hot Prey crime pattern refers to a group of crimes committed by one or more individuals, involving victims who ______________ .

A) Share similar physical characteristics or engage in similar behaviour
B) Deserved what they got
C) Were in the wrong place at the wrong time
D) Share DNA

Question 34

A Hot Spot crime patterns refers to a group of similar crimes committed by one or more individuals at locations ______________.

A) That cross state lines
B) Where food is sold
C) Within close proximity to one another
D) Frequented by homeless men

Question 35

The primary task of the crime analyst is to identify an emerging crime pattern as soon as possible and decide ______________.

A) How it started
B) Which of the seven types of patterns it is
C) Who will be responsible for dealing with it
D) How to report it

Question 36

To analyze the crime pattern carefully, the crime analyst must studies reports, contact patrol officers or detectives to obtain more information and ______________.

A) Go door-to-door to talk to citizens
B) Pull together all of the available and relevant information
C) Read between the lines
D) Conduct line ups of suspects

Question 37

After having identified a crime pattern and gathered more data to give the police as much information as possible, it is then time to ______________ .

A) Have a press conference
B) Leak his findings to a reporter
C) Send a bulletin or report to the police department
D) Have a private chat with the Chief

Question 38

There are three basic ways an analyst can report his results; a Repeat incident location report, a Report of the crime data variables used for pattern analysis and a ______________.

A) Crime pattern bulletin
B) Policy Statement
C) Fictionalized narrative report
D) Subcommittee report

Question 39

A Crime pattern bulletin summarizes the relevant information of crimes _______.

A) That have been reported city-wide for the last quarter
B) That have gone unsolved
C) That have been linked together as a pattern
D) That have gone unreported

Question 40

While tactical crime analysts may develop their own format for reports and bulletins, there is ______________ to help crime analysts create a crime analysis bulletin.

A) Help available from the IT department
B) Software developed
C) Plenty of examples on YouTube
D) No software developed

Question 41

Microsoft MS Access 2000 is a software program that can _______.

A) Help the crime analyst detect individual criminal offenders
B) Determine the next hot spot of crime
C) Detect multiple crime series, trends, sprees, clusters, or patterns
D) Do the crime analyst's work for him or her

Question 42

Although having communicated the existence of a crime pattern through a bulletin or report is part of a tactical crime analyst's job, he or she must also ______________.

A) Conduct lab tests
B) Investigate crime scenes
C) Carry out any menial task assigned by the Chief
D) Work with other units within the department to come up with strategies to address the crime pattern

Question 43

The crime analyst cannot provide actionable information if they do not have the ______________, which includes modern computers; software for data analysis, statistics and publications; and a geographic information system (GIS).

A) Necessary equipment
B) Permission of the Citizens Review Board
C) Money to buy luxury items
D) Complete freedom to do what they want

Question 44

A good first step in orienting the crime analysis unit toward an operational focus is to make sure crime analysts ______________.

A) Never leave their office
B) Stay in their ivory tower
C) Leave the office sometimes
D) Stay away from criminals

Question 45

In many police departments, the typical response to any identified crime pattern, crime series, hot spot, crime trend, or crime problem is the ______________ .

A) Use of the drug enforcement team
B) Deployment of the canine unit
C) Recruitment of new officers
D) Directed patrol

Question 46

A directed patrol is focused patrol; that is, patrol resources are concentrated at the times and in the places with the ______________.

A) Lowest risks of serious crime
B) Safest exposure of officers to danger
C) Lowest amount of actual crime
D) Highest risks of serious crime

Question 47

Tactical analysis and the identification of crime patterns require tactical responses; tactical responses refers to _______.

A) Slow, methodical approach to crime patterns
B) Fast, effective responses that stop a crime pattern or series in its tracks
C) Mobilizing police military-grade equipment
D) Responses that protect law enforcement from criticism

Question 48

The installation of security alarms would be an example of ______________.

A) Target softening approaches
B) Target hardening approaches
C) Covert approaches
D) Drug suppression approaches

Question 49

When established groups of officers, who are given assignments by crime analysts, spend their shifts intervening in patterns and problems, the name given to these officers is ______________,

A) Impact teams
B) Roving bands
C) SWAT units
D) Internal Affairs

Question 50

A properly designed ______________ can make excellent use of crime analysis.

A) Computer room
B) CompStat-style system
C) Police car
D) VW bus

Question 51

______________ is one of the central components to tactical analysis and one of the main skills analysts must develop as they investigate the commonalities that make up pattern crimes.

A) Toughness
B) Quality control
C) Critical thinking
D) A good computer

Question 52

A well-written report should denote several critical details that an analyst uses when considering-and examining-commonalities; These factors include type of crime, temporal concentration, spatial concentration, MO and ______________.

A) Property taken
B) Types of officers assigned to the cases
C) Whether there is a conflict of interest
D) Hot spot type

Question 53

The results of the analysis of crime patterns should be incorporated into a workable product that can be used not only for strategic and tactical planning, but also as an ______________.

A) Example of police work
B) An aid for Chiefs at seminars
C) Example of an analyst's portfolio
D) Investigative aid for officers