The Geographic Information System (GIS) integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information. GIS allows our clients and community partners to view, understand, question, interpret, and visualize data in many ways that reveal relationships, patterns, and trends in the form of maps, globes, reports, and charts. In the last decade, GIS has become a powerful crime prevention and investigation tool for mapping and analyzing crime patterns.
2010 Gang Education Workshop held in Winston-Salem, NC
What This Map Shows: This map represents the density of gang-related vandalism for only the city of Winston-Salem. Darker areas represent areas of higher gang-related vandalism. Lighter areas represent areas of lower gang-related vandalism. The numbers provided represent the number of gang-related vandalism acts per square mile. These data provided signify only offenses reported by the Winston-Salem Police Department, as these data are not currently available from Forsyth County and Kernersville.
Nursing students through the Center for Community Safety at Winston-Salem State University Research and Action Classroom
What This Map Shows: This map shows the number of teens aged 15 to 19 who gave birth during the year 2005. Areas with high teen birth rates are shown in red. Areas with low teen birth rates are shown in blue. Data were provided by the North Carolina Center for Health Statistics at the county level. Teen birth rates ranged from 11 to 92 births per 1,000 teens, with the state average at about 47 births for every 1,000 teens.
Regional Youth Intermediary Network in Lexington, North Carolina
What This Map Shows: This map shows the violent crime rate in fourteen counties per 10,000 people utilizing 2008 data. Violent crimes generally represent crimes against people and property, such as homicide, aggravated assault, rape, robbery and larceny. Data were provided by the Piedmont Triad Partnership located in Greensboro.
