The effect of GPS refresh rate on measuring police patrol in micro-places

IF 3.1 Q1 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY
Oliver K. Hutt, Kate Bowers, Shane D. Johnson
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Abstract

With the increasing prevalence of police interventions implemented in micro hot-spots of crime, the accuracy with which officer foot patrols can be measured is increasingly important for the robust evaluation of such strategies. However, it is currently unknown how the accuracy of GPS traces impact upon our understanding of where officers are at a given time and how this varies for different GPS refresh rates. Most existing studies that use GPS data fail to acknowledge this. This study uses GPS data from police officer radios and ground truth data to estimate how accurate GPS data are for different GPS refresh rates. The similarity of the assumed paths are quantitatively evaluated and the analysis shows that different refresh rates lead to diverging estimations of where officers have patrolled. These results have significant implications for the measurement of police patrols in micro-places and evaluations of micro-place based interventions.

GPS刷新率对微场所警务巡逻测量的影响
随着在犯罪微热点地区实施警察干预的日益普遍,测量警察步行巡逻的准确性对于此类策略的稳健评估变得越来越重要。然而,目前尚不清楚GPS跟踪的准确性如何影响我们对特定时间警官位置的理解,以及不同的GPS刷新率如何变化。大多数使用GPS数据的现有研究都没有承认这一点。本研究使用来自警察无线电的GPS数据和地面真实数据来估计不同GPS刷新率下GPS数据的准确性。对假设路径的相似性进行了定量评估,分析表明,不同的刷新率导致对警官巡逻地点的不同估计。这些结果对微场所警察巡逻的测量和微场所干预措施的评估具有重要意义。
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Crime Science
Crime Science Social Sciences-Cultural Studies
CiteScore
11.90
自引率
8.20%
发文量
12
审稿时长
13 weeks
期刊介绍: Crime Science is an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal with an applied focus. The journal''s main focus is on research articles and systematic reviews that reflect the growing cooperation among a variety of fields, including environmental criminology, economics, engineering, geography, public health, psychology, statistics and urban planning, on improving the detection, prevention and understanding of crime and disorder. Crime Science will publish theoretical articles that are relevant to the field, for example, approaches that integrate theories from different disciplines. The goal of the journal is to broaden the scientific base for the understanding, analysis and control of crime and disorder. It is aimed at researchers, practitioners and policy-makers with an interest in crime reduction. It will also publish short contributions on timely topics including crime patterns, technological advances for detection and prevention, and analytical techniques, and on the crime reduction applications of research from a wide range of fields. Crime Science publishes research articles, systematic reviews, short contributions and theoretical articles. While Crime Science uses the APA reference style, the journal welcomes submissions using alternative reference styles on a case-by-case basis.
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