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Calculating Crime
When you think about math, you probably don’t think about breaking the law, solving mysteries or finding criminals. But a mathematician in Maryland does, and he has come up with mathematical tools to help police find criminals.
People who solve crimes look for patterns that might reveal the identity of the criminal. It’s long been believed, for example, that criminals will break the law closer to where they live. simply because it’s easier to get around in one’s own neighborhood. If police see a pattern of robberies in a certain area, they may look for a suspect who lives near the crime scenes. So, the farther away from the area a crime takes place, the less likely it is that the same criminal did it.
But Mike O’Leary, a mathematician at Towson University in Maryland, says that this kind of approach may be too simple. He says that police may get better clues to the location of an offender’s home base by combini
A. It is too difficult for the police to use in finding criminals.
B. Few people associate it with finding criminals.
C. Some criminals make use of it when committing crimes.
D. it has long been employed in solving crimes.