Crime is a serious concern in our world today and it is ever evolving. Today we have to worry about things like Cyber crime, which our ancestors would have never even thought about. Our technology is moving faster than we can keep up with and it is creating a technological lag. Also, many of our lawmakers like to do things the old fashion way and are not capable of combating this new era of crime. We don’t have to sit here and let it just happen though; we can use this new technology to our advantage. This paper is going to show just how effective technology is and its implications on crime in the future. ArcGIS is an integrated collection of computer software and date used to view and manage information about geographical locations, analyze
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That can probably be said for almost any project anyone has ever done. I search around on the Internet and finally found a website I thought could be useful and that was the Office of Criminal Justice Services webpage. Unlike some other states this page has a wonderful excel sheet that you can download that has all sorts of crime statistics for every county along with the crime statistics for every city in that county. In this project I was primarily focusing on the crime in each county so I had to get rid of some data. Also this project just focused on the four criminal acts I mentioned earlier violent crime, rapes, murder, and robbery. So some data had to be deleted and the excel page had to be refined down quite a bit. Data is important, but almost equally as important in this project was the map of Ohio with the all the counties. Thankfully, the GIS program comes with pre-downloaded maps and happened to have a map of the United States. You did a project on Ohio so why does a map of the United States help you may ask. Well in order to acquire the map of Ohio I had to single out Ohio in the attribute table and export the data so I could have a nice clean map of Ohio. Similarly, the program has a map of every county in the United States. So, using the same process I selected every Ohio County and exported the data to make a layer of just Ohio …show more content…
If you look back to the table of contents all four maps show higher rates of crime in the counties that have larger cities. A few of the biggest cities in Ohio would have to be Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Toledo. These cities lie in the counties of Franklin, Hamilton, Cuyahoga, and Lucas. As seen in the earlier maps each of the counties are on the higher end of the crime scale in all categories. As shown in Map 1, Cuyahoga, Hamilton, and Franklin are in the red, but there are a few other outliers. This shows that some other counties are having murder problems for some reason. In all of these maps there are a few outliers, which could show law enforcement they should keep a close eye out for these types of crime. One really interesting thing is Map 3 because there are a lot more counties in the orange and yellow than the other maps. Why is rape so prevalent is many of our counties? A map like this shows that things are not right and we should change our policies to help protect the
That can probably be said for almost any project anyone has ever done. I search around on the Internet and finally found a website I thought could be useful and that was the Office of Criminal Justice Services webpage. Unlike some other states this page has a wonderful excel sheet that you can download that has all sorts of crime statistics for every county along with the crime statistics for every city in that county. In this project I was primarily focusing on the crime in each county so I had to get rid of some data. Also this project just focused on the four criminal acts I mentioned earlier violent crime, rapes, murder, and robbery. So some data had to be deleted and the excel page had to be refined down quite a bit. Data is important, but almost equally as important in this project was the map of Ohio with the all the counties. Thankfully, the GIS program comes with pre-downloaded maps and happened to have a map of the United States. You did a project on Ohio so why does a map of the United States help you may ask. Well in order to acquire the map of Ohio I had to single out Ohio in the attribute table and export the data so I could have a nice clean map of Ohio. Similarly, the program has a map of every county in the United States. So, using the same process I selected every Ohio County and exported the data to make a layer of just Ohio …show more content…
If you look back to the table of contents all four maps show higher rates of crime in the counties that have larger cities. A few of the biggest cities in Ohio would have to be Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Toledo. These cities lie in the counties of Franklin, Hamilton, Cuyahoga, and Lucas. As seen in the earlier maps each of the counties are on the higher end of the crime scale in all categories. As shown in Map 1, Cuyahoga, Hamilton, and Franklin are in the red, but there are a few other outliers. This shows that some other counties are having murder problems for some reason. In all of these maps there are a few outliers, which could show law enforcement they should keep a close eye out for these types of crime. One really interesting thing is Map 3 because there are a lot more counties in the orange and yellow than the other maps. Why is rape so prevalent is many of our counties? A map like this shows that things are not right and we should change our policies to help protect the