Analysis
MPD
SQL
Excel
Miscellaneous
100

The study of public disorder and crime where crime reduction, prevention, and apprehension of criminals is the goal.

CRIME ANALYSIS

100

Terminology for the format of CAD and Case Numbers.

JULIAN DATE

100

This operator searches for a pattern of letters/numbers.

LIKE

100

Excel's built-in, preprogrammed formulas.

FUNCTIONS

100

NIBRS Code 220

BURGLARY

200

The study of reported crime, calls for service, and other related information in order to inform short-term operational crime control activities and problem-solving.

TACTICAL CRIME ANALYSIS

200

DISPOSITION C12

CITY CITATION(S) ISSUED

200

A query nested within the WHERE clause of another query.

SUBQUERY

200

The process of merging one value to another to form a text string.

CONCATENATE

200

This professional organization was formed in 1990 to help Crime Analysts around the world improve their skills and make valuable contacts, to help law enforcement agencies make the best use of crime analysis, and to advocate for standards of performance and technique within the profession itself.

THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CRIME ANALYSTS (IACA)

300

The study of crime and law enforcement information integrated with sociodemographic and spatial factors to determine long-term “patterns” of activity, to assist in problem-solving, and to research and evaluate responses and procedures.

STRATEGIC CRIME ANALYSIS

300

The date in which RMS changed from Tiburon to Central Square (formerly TriTech).

May 1, 2018

300

A clause for the SELECT statement specifying that duplicate rows should be eliminated in the results.

DISTINCT

300

This formula allows you to quickly search for an item to return related information/data.

VLOOKUP

300

The process of converting the coordinates of a map or an image from one system to another, typically by shifting, rotating, scaling, skewing, or projecting them.

TRANSFORMATION

400

The process of systematically collecting, cleaning, transforming, describing, modeling, and interpreting data.

DATA ANALYSIS

400

A Felony Warrant in which the District Attorney has formally charged the defendant with the crime.

J/K - WARRANTS

400

This will combine rows from different tables even if the join condition is not met.

OUTER JOIN

400

A tool to calculate, summarize, and analyze data that allows you to see comparisons, patterns, and trends in data

PIVOT TABLE

400

Those unfamiliar with the Crime Analysis profession often compare it to Steven Spielberg's 2002 film in which a specialized police department, known as "Precrime", apprehends criminals by the use of foreknowledge.

MINORITY REPORT

500

The process of investigating social structures through the use of networks and graph theory.

SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS

500

The six (6) MPD Core Values.

COMPETENCE, COURAGE, INTEGRITY, LEADERSHIP, RESPECT, RESTRAINT

500

This operator combines the result set of two different queries. The number of columns and their datatypes in the two queries must match.

UNION/UNION ALL

500

One must go here to create a "drop-down list".

DATA VALIDATION

500

DAILY DOUBLE

The number of municipalities that border the City of Milwaukee to the East?

SEVEN (7)

Brown Deer, River Hills, Glendale, Whitefish Bay, Shorewood, St. Francis, Cudahy

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