Linking maps to crime scenes and revealing unseen connections - Resource Centre | Esri UK & Ireland
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The more entities and relations you add, the more complexity your link chart will encompass. Here, we have aggregated crimes into categories, displayed as boxes with a handcuff symbol and the relevant crime description. ‘Red’ people still represent convicted criminals and the ‘grey’ ones are suspects. The grey links are known connections between people, whereas the dotted red lines indicate an individual’s conviction of a given kind of crime. You could step up your investigation and add every individual incident to your chart, but make sure to use the symbology and layout options to maintain a clear overview.
Let’s see if we can make out some patterns in this spider web… Inspecting the branch of the network with the largest number of people, we see four sub groups that are consistently involved with burglaries and the other three with drug possession. Incidents of anti-social behaviour and public order occur all across this branch. This helps to create a profile of this subgroup and the roles of the members within it.