Identifying hot spots
The Police Chief has come to you for help. He is working on a grant to help fund more police officers through a neighborhood policing program. He needs to determine whether there are areas where crime has been occurring that have experienced more damage or loss than others. If such areas exist, he could include that as justification in his grant proposal.
He has provided you with crime data for the city that covers the years 2013 and 2014. This data has been geocoded, so you have a point layer that shows the location of the crimes and is attributed with the Crime Type, Date it occurred, Officer Responding, Damage or Loss in dollars, and number of victims involved. The grant requires all numbers to be summarized to the Census Block level. You will have to use the Spatial Join tool to aggregate the crime data by Census Block.
In this recipe, you will use the Hot Spot Analysis tool to see whether there are any geographic clusters of crimes that have resulted in higher-than...
