PARTNERSHIP FOR ACTION LEARNING IN SUSTAINABILITY FALL 2015 Assault Incidents in Howard County, Maryland Research Questions: Are there any spatial patterns of assaults in Howard County? Are there any clusters, hotspots or outliers? Conclusion: The choropleth map shows that there is a spatial pattern of assaults in Howard County. Most of incidents have occurred in cities, especially Columbia Town Center and on route 1. These incidents are clustered in these areas while few outlier of high or low number of incident were found. From the GIS analyses we can tell that clustered areas need for more policing and further investigation is also needed to identify factors such as a density of population to explain the clustering in the areas. Uri Avin, PALS Director, Center of the National Center for Smart Growth Gerrit Knapp, Executive Director, National Center for Smart Growth Derek Lombardi, PALS coordinator PALS Salim Rashid Students: James Gimpel Faculty Advisor: CLUSTER AND OUTLIER ANALYSIS: ASSAULTS IN HOWARD COUNTY, 2005-2015 In 2008 we see that Howard county peaked at 8,137 incidents of assault. This being said, through the years Howard County has been on a downwards trend of assault incidents. With its lowest point occurring in 2015 with only 4140 incidents CHOROPLETH MAP: ASSAULTS IN HOWARD COUNTY, 2005-2015 HOT SPOT ANALYSIS: ASSAULTS IN HOWARD COUNTY, 2005-2015

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Page 1: Assault Incidents in Howard County, MarylandSalim Rashid University of Maryland, GVPT3681 ilford erloo Anne Arundel 10 Miles Hot Spot Analysis Gi Bin Montgomery Cold Spot- 99% Confidence

PARTNERSHIP FOR ACTION LEARNING IN SUSTAINABILITY

FALL 2015

Assault Incidents in Howard County, MarylandResearch Questions: Are there any spatial patterns of assaults in Howard County?Are there any clusters, hotspots or outliers?

Conclusion: The choropleth map shows that there is a spatial pattern of assaults in Howard County. Most of incidents have occurred in cities, especially Columbia Town Center and on route 1. These incidents are clustered in these areas while few outlier of high or low number of incident were found.

From the GIS analyses we can tell that clustered areas need for more policing and further investigation is also needed to identify factors such as a density of population to explain the clustering in the areas.

Uri Avin, PALS Director, Center of the National Center for Smart Growth Gerrit Knapp, Executive Director, National Center for Smart Growth Derek Lombardi, PALS coordinator

PALS Salim RashidStudents:James GimpelFaculty Advisor:

CLUSTERANDOUTLIERANALYSIS:ASSAULTSINHOWARDCOUNTY,2005-2015

In 2008 we see that Howard county peaked at 8,137 incidents of assault. This being said, through the years Howard County has been on a downwards trend of assault incidents. With its lowest point occurring in 2015 with only 4140 incidents

CHOROPLETHMAP:ASSAULTSINHOWARDCOUNTY,2005-2015

HOTSPOTANALYSIS:ASSAULTSINHOWARDCOUNTY,2005-2015