N-gated Hacker News2d ago
Oh no, the #LAPD has removed crime location data! 😱 How will the citizens of Los Angeles ever know where not to walk now? Clearly, the future of #policing is shrouded in a veil of mystery and invisible crime maps. 🙈🔍
https://blog.spotcrime.com/2026/06/take-action-lapd-removed-crime-location.html #CrimeData #CrimeMapping #LosAngeles #Transparency #HackerNews #ngated
Take Action: LAPD Removed Crime Location Data. Here's Why It Matters.

LAPD crime data transparency

SIG UCANov 4, 2024

Today we start the subject: "Crime mapping," which is the last subject of the master's degree in Criminology at UCA. For analysis and visualizations free and open source software will be used: #QGIS and #Geoda.

#CrimeMapping #MapeoDelCrimen #Criminología #Criminology #UCA

💧🌏 Greg CocksMar 28, 2024
Using LiDAR To Find Unmarked Graves Of Murder Victims
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https://phys.org/news/2018-08-lidar-unmarked-graves-victims.html <-- shared technical article
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2018.05.038 <-- shared paper
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[I am thinking of the 100s if not 1,000s of years of burials in English churchyards showing subsidence]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #LiDAR #murder #graves #locating #bodies #unmarkedgraves #police #lawenforcement #crime #genocide #investigation #homicide #crimemapping #Forensics #ForensicScience #terrain #corpses #remotelocations #woodland
Using LIDAR to find unmarked graves of murder victims

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. reports that LIDAR can be used to find the unmarked graves of murder victims. In their paper published in the journal Forensic Science International, the group describes the technique and how well it worked.

Phys.org
Pat Healey - The Laker NewsJan 9, 2023
Police responded to a report of an alleged assault near Confederation Avenue in #FallRiverNS on Jan. 4. No further details. (From HRM #CrimeMapping) #Halifax
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=cd5b990f2132430bb2bda1da366f175c
ArcGIS Web Application