Any advance in mapping technology would be welcome, he said.
"An officer might know some of this stuff in his gut, but anytime you can nail that down, it allows you to take that information and build it up to the macro level, where you're talking about the entire city, the county or state," McGuire said. "If it's a more accepted position because it's science, not the gut feeling of a street officer, that is going to be heard by people making decisions for the department.
On the Net: Carnegie Mellon University at www.cmu.edu and the National Institute of Justice, www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/.
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