Commonalities
As indicated above, the commonality portion of the product should at least include
- • Crime type
- • Temporal details
- • Spatial details
- • MO factors
Incident Details
This portion of the product consists of a chart that details the specifics of the crime pattern:
- • Occurrence date
- • Reporting law enforcement agency
- • Pattern crimes usually occur in multiple police jurisdictions and, as such, may have multiple police agencies reporting them.
- • Location type
- • Commercial
- • Residential
- • Location address
- • Occurrence time
- • Day of the week
- • Suspect description(s)
- • Suspect vehicle description(s)
- • Brief narrative that highlights MO
- • For example, suspect 1 held customers and employees at bay with a handgun while suspect 2 loaded a black duffel bag with phones
The above aspects of a product are not absolute, in terms of format or content, but the product should highlight most of these areas for completeness.
Photos
Photographs of suspects, suspect vehicles, and property taken may lead to an identification.
Map
A map of the crime locations can help the investigative team, analyst included, with identifying relevance in terms of entry and egress to and from the crime scene. There may be other factors that may help to identify why certain actual and geographical locations are being targeted over others.
