Crime Maps: How to "See" Crime Activity in Your City.SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 1995--Kevin Wirth Wirth is a German surname which may refer to any of the following individuals:
prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Wirth, the crime tracking concepts he announced today at a news conference in Seattle can be used to analyze crime in any major city. "Crime statistics which include totals from the entire city actually hide the areas we need to be paying the most attention to", says Wirth. "Crime may be going up 20% for residential burglary burglary, at common law, the breaking and entering of a dwelling house of another at night with the intent to commit a felony, whether the intent is carried out or not. or motor vehicle theft Motor vehicle theft or grand theft auto is a criminal act of theft generally understood to refer to the stealing of automobiles, buses, motorcycles, snowmobiles, trucks, trailers or any other motorized vehicle legally allowed on public roads and highways, including attempted on average throughout a city, but it doesn't really mean much to residents. What they really want to know is: 'Why did motor vehicle theft go up 70% in my neighborhood last year?'" Wirth, 43, a computer consultant and president of Wirth and Associates, thinks that residents of most cities want to see maps on a regular basis showing a wide range of trends in crime activity for individual neighborhoods, not an entire city. He advocates identifying and tracking the progress of what he calls the "Top Ten" crime communities for a specific crime theme in any major city. "In Seattle, the Top Ten census tract neighborhoods -- that's roughly 8% of the population -- account for 24% of residential burglary and over 22% of all motor vehicle thefts in the city. If you want to take a really big bite Big Bite was an Australian sketch comedy broadcast on the Seven Network in an evening timeslot. The show starred Chris Lilley of We Can Be Heroes and Andrew O'Keefe, who would go on to fame as host of the Seven Network's Deal or No Deal, Dragons' Den, The Rich List out of crime, you're going to want to put a lot of effort into identifying, working in, and tracking the progress of those neighborhoods," says Wirth. Using an almost endless supply of charts and graphs, Wirth is placing this information on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the so others can tell what the intensity of crime activity has been like in their neighborhood. -0- Text of Remarks at News Conference may be obtained by request via e-mail to: kevin.wirth@accessone.com The 1994 Crime Maps, charts, and report can be seen on the internet at: http://www.accessone.com/~kwirth CONTACT: Wirth & Associates Kevin Wirth, 206/391-3698 |
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