Place matters · Spatial criminology
Crime has an address.
I'm Grant Drawve, a spatial criminologist. I turn crime insights into data-informed decisions about place: where risk concentrates, why, and what to do about it. Here you'll find my podcast, free tutorials and tools, and research for analysts, police, retailers, and researchers.
NIBRS Group A offenses, H3 hexagons (0.74 km²). Data: KCPD via KC Open Data, updated weekly. Streets: U.S. Census TIGER/Line.
Tutorial library
Learn the toolkit, one task at a time.
Short videos from years of teaching crime analysis. Each one solves a single, specific problem.
| Excel | Cleaning, counting, and pivoting crime data. | 24 |
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| Excel mapping | Maps without GIS software. | 12 |
| ArcGIS for Excel | Moving between Excel and Esri. | 3 |
| ArcGIS Pro | Joins, fishnets, hot spots, and spatial statistics. | 30 |
| Google tools | Scholar, Trends, Earth, and Street View. | 7 |
| Crime data sources | Where US crime data lives and how to pull it. | 4 |
About
Researcher, practitioner, teacher.
I'm Vice President of Geospatial Crime Solutions at CAP Index, a crime risk scoring and modeling company. I was hired to build its Research & Innovation division, which has since brought four new crime risk products to market.
Day to day, I lead a team of crime and data analysts hunting data, standardizing the messiness, and developing pipelines.
Contact
Have a question, a dataset, or a guest idea?
Speaking requests, podcast guest suggestions, and research collaborations are all welcome.