At the same time, he said, the department needs to adjust when a crime pattern ebbs and relocates.
Consistent with crime pattern theory, the results suggest that the broader organization of the environmental backcloth affects how constituent place features relate to and influence crime.
Yet while the pace of driver homicides has risen, the larger crime pattern, which shows the number of reported robberies in the cabs, has not, police data show.
What is obvious is that no law-and-order initiative is going to touch the social chemistry which produces highway robbery or piracy or drug dealing or any other major crime pattern.
3. Work as members of a "Citizen's Oversight Committee" to research the effects of a proposed criminal surveillance system on their state, focusing on economic, civil rights and crime pattern issues; develop advisory reports.
In several California cities, for example, injunctions have barred specific gang members, usually those with criminal histories, from activities like climbing trees, whistling, carrying bottles or making gang hand signals because these behaviors were often associated with a crime pattern.
While the pace of driver homicides has been rising, the larger crime pattern, which shows the number of reported robberies in livery cabs, has not changed, according to police data.
