IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY

CRIME RATES OF 2012

Joel Heilman & Jonathan Beavers

OUTLINE Objectives Study Area Statistics Equipment Used Methodology Project Planning Uncorrected Data Corrected Data Finished Maps For the Future

OBJECTIVES Collect line (streets) and polygon

(buildings &parking lots) features of central Iowa State campus

Collect point features (the location of crimes & emergency poles) on central campus

Create a map in ArcMap showing the location and number of crimes on central campus

Provide students/faculty with a spatial distribution of crime reports provided by ISU police department

STUDY AREAIowa State University Central Campus

96 Acres

STATISTICS Total of 272 crimes in our mapped area

Least (49) in summer months (Jun-Aug)Most (84) in fall months (Sep-Nov)

Most crimes in 24 hour period: 20th April (VEISHEA weekend)37 crimes (48% of spring crimes) occurred

during the week of VEISHEA 16 Emergency poles on ISU campus

(1,795 acres), 12 Emergency poles on UNI campus (716 acres)

EQUIPMENT USED Trimble JUNO 3B Receiver 2012 Crime Data from ISU Police

Department <http://www.police.iastate.edu/daily-crime-log>

Trimble Pathfinder Office ArcMap

METHODOLOGYProject

Planning

Setup Data

Dictionary

Data Collection

Post ProcessingMake Excel

Document with Crime

Data

Export to ArcMap

Join Features with Crime

Data

Analysis/ Resulting Map

Quick Plan

Data Transfe

r

PROJECT PLANNING

UNCORRECTED DATA

CORRECTED DATA

FOR THE FUTURE Continue mapping ISU campus Map according to specific types of

crimes Compare with buffer zone around

emergency poles Compare with other state universities

(University of Iowa and UNI)