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Crime analysis is a discipline of public safety analysis, which provides information support for the missions of law enforcement or criminal justice agencies. Strictly speaking, crime analysis involves:

• The study of criminal incidents
• The identification of crime patterns, crime trends, and crime problems
• The analysis of these patterns, trends, and problems
• The dissemination of information to a police agency so that the agency can develop tactics and strategies to solve patterns, trends, and problems is completed.