About Christopher W. Bruce

Christopher W. Bruce

cwbruce@gmail.com

978-853-3502

Christopher W. Bruce is a career crime analyst and criminal justice professor. I was on the executive board of the International Association of Crime Analysts from 2000 to 2019, including six years as president (2007-2012). I claim expertise in several areas:

 

• Crime analysis, including the creation and development of crime analysis programs
• Law enforcement data systems, including records management (RMS) and computer-aided dispatch (CAD) systems
• Computer applications for data analysis
• Crime mapping, geographic information systems, and spatial statistics
• Use of analysis in modern policing models like hot spot policing, problem-oriented policing, community policing, predictive policing, and intelligence-led policing
• Data-Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety (DDACTS)
• Environmental criminology
• The development and early history of jazz
• Arthurian literature

   

You can see my full curriculum vitae.

 

Although I now teach full-time in the School of Legal Studies at Husson University, I take consulting and training projects that interest me--specifically, those oriented to the areas of expertise above. My particularly specialty is in law enforcement data systems--getting information out of them, and doing something useful with it.

My most popular resources:

• Better Policing with Microsoft Office files: tutorial files for a book on using Microsoft Office that I co-wrote with Dr. Mark Stallo in 2007. I am working on an update. 

• Building a Model Crime Analysis Program: A manual I wrote with Debra Piehl and Tom Casady for a Bureau of Justice Assistance-funded training program.

• Spatial Statistics in Crime Analysis: Using CrimeStat III, a guide I wrote with Susan Smith for the popular spatial statistics application.

• The Microsoft Access threshold database I developed for the IACA in 2005. A lot of agencies use this (or one similar) to track their crime statistics.

• The Microsoft Access top offender database I wrote for a couple of police agencies in the 2010s. It prioritizes and manages information about top offenders. Sample data in the database.

    

I am happy to talk with you about implementing any of these resources, or others like it, in your department.