The Regional Crime Analysis Program (ReCAP): a framework for mining data to catch criminals

摘要

Most law enforcement agencies today are faced with enormous quantities of data that must be processed and turned into useful information. Two technologies provide the means to turn data into information: data fusion and data mining. Data fusion organizes, combines and interprets information from multiple sources, and it overcomes confusion from conflicting reports and cluttered or noisy backgrounds. Data mining is concerned with the automatic discovery of patterns and relationships in large databases. This paper describes ReCAP (Regional Crime Analysis Program), which was built to provide crime analysts with both technologies.