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Crime hotspot prediction based on dynamic spatial analysis

  • Hajela, Gaurav (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology) ;
  • Chawla, Meenu (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology) ;
  • Rasool, Akhtar (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology)
  • Received : 2020.05.22
  • Accepted : 2021.02.02
  • Published : 2021.12.01
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Abstract

Crime is not a completely random event but rather shows a pattern in space and time. Capturing the dynamic nature of crime patterns is a challenging task. Crime prediction models that rely only on neighborhood influence and demographic features might not be able to capture the dynamics of crime patterns, as demographic data collection does not occur frequently and is static. This work proposes a novel approach for crime count and hotspot prediction to capture the dynamic nature of crime patterns using taxi data along with historical crime and demographic data. The proposed approach predicts crime events in spatial units and classifies each of them into a hotspot category based on the number of crime events. Four models are proposed, which consider different covariates to select a set of independent variables. The experimental results show that the proposed combined subset model (CSM), in which static and dynamic aspects of crime are combined by employing the taxi dataset, is more accurate than the other models presented in this study.

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