{"id":5108,"date":"2010-03-24T03:00:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=5108"},"modified":"2010-03-24T03:00:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T08:00:50","slug":"paging-professor-epps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5108","title":{"rendered":"Paging Professor Eppes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news188504204.html\">Fighting crime with math: Model explains hot spots of illegal activity<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Using a decade of data from the Los Angeles Police Department, UC Irvine criminologist George Tita and colleagues developed a mathematical model of how urban crime hot spots form and spread. It reveals two distinct types of areas that respond differently to suppression tactics.<\/p>\n<p>Illegal activity follows a discernible pattern, Tita says: \u201cCriminals forage for opportunities to commit crimes, much like bees search for pollen or butterflies for nectar. Foraging patterns are predictable, whether you study human or insect behavior.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fighting crime with math: Model explains hot spots of illegal activity Using a decade of data from the Los Angeles Police Department, UC Irvine criminologist George Tita and colleagues developed a mathematical model of how urban crime hot spots form &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5108\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}