The geospatial patterning of crimes against persons calls for service on days with and without San Antonio Spurs games

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2024年1月19日

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Ryan Bagwell,
Wanda E. Leal,
Shouraseni Sen Roy,
Hayley Flanagan,
Lucas Britton,
Alex R. Piquero,
Kristina Block

摘要

Abstract Objectives

Examine how crimes against person (CAP) calls are spatially patterned around the Spurs’ arena and city. Using data from 2019–2021, we investigate the geospatial clustering of CAP calls when fans are and are not present.

Methods

CAP calls are separated by Spurs game day or not, home or away games, and before or during COVID-19. ArcGIS Pro is used to run optimized hot spot analyses and hot spot comparisons with similarity values and spatial fuzzy kappa for each comparison.

Results

The largest hot spot is around the Riverwalk and downtown, and days with home games do not increase hot spots around the arena. There are significant changes in hot spots across the city on days with home versus away games and during COVID-19 versus before.

Conclusions

The location of stadiums/arenas and proximity to popular areas with micro-facilities should be considered in sports and crime research and crime prevention discussions.