Assignment 6.2 Crime Map Exploration Part 2.

Map Exploration
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Map Exploration
The community crime map has more to offer when compared to Clear Map by the Chicago police department. The community Crime Map has data for several states in the USA whereas; the Chicago Clear Map carries only Chicago crime data (Chicago Police Department, 2018). If someone needs detailed overview on when crimes occur, they would instead settle for the Community Crime map as it allows for a smaller timeframe search while the Chicago map has a minimum a fixed timeframe of 1-90 days, on which cannot get modified to fit the needs of the researcher (Chicago Police Department, 2018). On interpretation, the community map is more straightforward to interpret as it provides analytics on the reported crimes. Each map has its benefits; for example, the Chicago map gives an actual number of each crime while the Community one does not, but it does give the place of crime commission, date and time (LexisNexis, 2018).
From the two maps when on compares Texas and Chicago, it is hard to quantify crime since the Community map does not give exact numbers of the crimes committed. In Chicago, crime is assigned to places while in Knox, the chart shows where specifically a crime got committed (LexisNexis, 2018). Taking burglary as an example, a specific area in Chicago may pass as a burglary hotspot since it has more than 177 recorded cases, while the Community map does not associate a city with crime; it only shows where each reported crime occurred (Chicago Police Department, 2018).

In Chicago, burglary extends from the south to the west of the state leaving out the north and the southwest regions. In Texas, Knox County, crime burglary, and all other crimes occur evenly on the west and southwestern parts of the county (LexisNexis, 2018). From the two maps, crimes are high where the population is high too.

References
Chicago Police Department. (2018). Chicago Police Department Clearmap – Crime Summary. Retrieved from http://gis.chicagopolice.org/CLEARMap_crime_sums/startPage.htm#
LexisNexis. (2018). LexisNexis Community Crime Map. Retrieved from http://communitycrimemap.com/

Appendix 1
Chicago Map

Knox, TX Map
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