PREDICTION OF POLICE INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS BY METEOROLOGICAL variables.
Abstract
Weather variables were studied as predictors of police incidents in the City of Fort Worth for a six month period. Frequencies of 31 categories of calls to the police department and means of 13 weather variables, as well as the day of the year, were computed by six-hour intervals. Correlations among all variables were computed for each of the four quarters of the day over 178 days, and also across all 712 quarter-day periods; nine categories of police calls were selected for further analysis. Two factors, a temperature-pressure and precipitation-fog, were found for all criteria; a pressure-wind factor occurred for 8 of the 9 criterion variables, and a precipitation factor occurred for three criteria. Methodological problems suggest caution in interpretation, although both the results and the methods used appear promising for further research. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1969
- Accession Number
- AD0685615
Entities
People
- Donald P. Will Jr.
- Saul B. Sells
Organizations
- Texas Christian University