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Mapping & Analysis

NIJ's Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety (MAPS) program supports research that helps agencies use GIS to enhance public safety. The program examines:

  • How to use maps to analyze crime.
  • How to analyze spatial data.
  • How maps can help researchers evaluate programs and policies.
  • How to develop mapping, data sharing and spatial analysis tools.

Learn all about MAPS.

 

Geography and Public Safety Bulletin, Volume 3, Issue 2: Use of GIS in the Public Health Sector

by National Institute of Justice and the Office of Community Oriented Policing ServicesSeptember 2012

In this issue, we examine the use of GIS in the public health sector and how this use can enhance public safety. This issue will review the Milwaukee Homicide Review Commission, an illustration of a comprehensive community-based system to reduce youth and gang violence in Los Angeles County, and crime mapping news section.

Articles include:

  • Criminal Justice and Public Health Approaches to Violent Crime: Complementary Perspectives
  • Integrating Emergency Department and Police Data to Locate and Prevent Violence: The Cardiff Model
  • Using Public Health Strategies to Reduce Violence in “Hot Spots” in East Palo Alto, California
  • Comprehensive Community Based Information System to Reduce Youth and Gang Violence in Los Angeles County and Beyond
  • What Can We Learn from Public Health? – An Example of Sharing Law Enforcement Spatial Data
    with Community Partners