A crime hot spot illustrates areas of especially high concentrations/occurrences of a crime.  Small geographic areas which have an unusually high concentration of a crime offense type become a "hot spot".  Typically Hot Spots depict the concentrations of events in Cold (low) to Hot (High) rendering schemes; as is the case with the crimeMapper.  The rendering scheme used by the crimeMapper:



displays areas of low concentrations of a crime offense type in blues and higher concentrations in orange/reds.

All hot spots in the crimeMapper are generated once a week, Sunday evenings and include all crime defined in this section over the past year (from the day created).

Note:
Crime against persons includes the following Crimes: Homicide, Rape, Robbery, Aggravated Assault.
Crime against property includes the following Crimes: Burglary, Larceny, Larceny of Moter Vehicle.

1. Find the   section named Crime Hot Spots.
   
   
2. Use the pull down to select a a hot spot to display.
   
3. Once the Hot Spot is selected...
   
4. The map will re-draw and display the hot spot and the hot spot legend.  (Note the legend can be closed by clicking on the X in the right corner of the legend)
   
5. To turn the Hot Spot off choose "None" from the pull down.