Arlington Police Crime Coverage Model
Client: Arlington Texas Police Department
Team: Ron Andrews, Blake Robinson
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Siems
Year: 2011
Documents: Final Report, Presentation
The Arlington Police Department is responsible for policing the city of Arlington to achieve a safer community. The policing of the city is divided roughly into four main areas (north, south, east, and west) with each respective area possessing its own police station. The Arlington Police Department requested insight into the placement of the police stations to see if they were effectively located to process the level one crimes that originate from each main area. If a main area was not adequately covered, areas could be hypothetically redrawn to accommodate effective policing.
Our method of analysis included the use of in-depth data analysis and a pure network model that had the potential to take into consideration Euclidean distances, time schedules, crime severity and political issues. Our findings indicated that the placement of police stations given current population levels were placed reasonably close to where our model suggested they should be placed. It was also discovered that complex issues such as political issues and crime severity are hard to quantify within a model given due to the ambiguous nature of the data.