Protecting the People

Discover the geographic approach to fighting crime while engaging citizens.

Protecting the People: GIS for Law Enforcement explores a collection of real-life stories about law enforcement agencies successfully using GIS for crime analysis, open policing, and field mobility. The book also includes a section on next steps that provides ideas, strategies, tools, and actions to help jump-start your own use of GIS for law enforcement. A collection of online resources, including additional stories, videos, new ideas and concepts, and downloadable tools and content, complements this book.

Edited by John Beck, director of law enforcement solutions at Esri, and Matt Artz, an Esri content strategist.

APPLYING GIS

The Applying GIS series explains how to become a spatial thinker, with ideas and strategies for building location intelligence into your profession, industry, or discipline. Each pocket-sized book is divided into relevant topic areas that include a set of case studies and a road map for getting started with GIS.