Using Crime Reports

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by Sam Culper

Next week, we’re about to start going over a handful of posts about source recruiting and source operations; areas which have only been lightly covered on this blog.  That’s about to change.

I was thinking earlier today about all the applications of source ops for the post-SHTF Patriot and/or prepper.  One of the most glaring ways is to track crime information.  I think the possibility that we all go to sleep one night and wake up in post-Apocalyptic America is pretty low.  I think it’s more likely that, for a period of time, civil society slowly breaks down and we just don’t realize that we’re already living in post-SHTF until a catastrophic event occurs.  Post-SHTF would not have started one second after that event, but probably in the years leading up to that event.  I guess you could even make the case that we’re living in post-SHTF America right now because I don’t foresee things getting better before they get worse.  We’re probably here for good.

That said, everyone needs to check out Crime Reports.  I think we covered this site already in an Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB) post and an Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) post.  At any rate, do a quick search for the past month based on your zip code.  Then look at each month for the past 12 months and keep score.  Do you notice any patterns?  I still need to write a couple posts on identifying and analyzing patterns, but you already know the basics.  There’s a lot of nuance, however, in reading patterns.  Some factors we might look at are frequency and disposition (geographic relation, for instance).

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