And they can run models using the data being collected to test whether their hunches are correct about what sparks crime.
The programmes, for transmission on British terrestrial television, will, I fear, inflame community tensions, whip up divisions between religious groups and even spark hate crimes against its devotees.
Federal and state investigators requested that details of the incident not be published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) for 12 years, for they feared a description of the events could spark copycat crimes, and JAMA complied.
One book in particular was vilified in the aftermath of Lord William's murder for sparking copycat crimes: William Ainsworth's 1839 novel, "Jack Sheppard," along with its numerous, enormously popular, unlicensed stage adaptations.
The New York Post reported that the darkness in the stairwells and general unease in Red Hook had sparked serious crimes, including two reported rapes and multiple muggings.
We were dealing, to misquote Muriel Spark, with the Crime of Missed Screen Brodie.
But the threat of Communist rule and the rise of organized crime spark violence that tears a family apart and ensnares a dedicated and principled artist, the photographer Wen-ching.
The crime sparked nationwide outrage, and Merkel herself expressed shock at the incident.
Rows over controversial speakers, including radical Islamist preachers who stop short of committing any crime, sparked the demand for the strengthened Prevent duty in the first place.
Supporters' speeches echoed themes of equality and civil rights with mentions of Obama, Martin Luther King Jr and Matthew Shepard, a gay college student whose 1998 death sparked numerous hate crime bills.
"The decision was made taking into account the wide social response sparked by this crime," spokesman Vladimir Markin said.
