In Sherman and Colleagues' Research Dealing with Crime Hot Spots

question 80

Multiple Choice

In Sherman and colleagues' research dealing with crime hot spots, they chose to use "calls for service" to local law enforcement as a means of measuring where different types of crimes happened with greatest frequency. They noted some problems with the use of calls for service. Which of the following represents those problems?

• A) there is a potential for duplicate calls to local law enforcement for any one event
• B) there may be false reports; in other words, no crime happened
• C) there can be misleading findings, such as parking lots or hospitals appearing to be hot spots when in fact they are not
• D) all of the above

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Definitions:

Weighted Average Delay

implies the average time delay in a process or system, adjusted for the importance or frequency of each delay component.

Collection Delay

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Average Amount

The mean sum of a group of numbers, calculated by dividing the total by the quantity of numbers.