Kim Rossmo | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1955 (age 70–71) Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Alma mater | Simon Fraser University |
| Occupation | Criminologist |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Criminology |
Kim Rossmo (born 1955 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian criminologist specializing in geographic profiling.[1]
Career
He joined the Vancouver Police Department as a civilian employee in 1978 and became a sworn officer in 1980. In 1987 he received a master's degree in criminology from Simon Fraser University and in 1995 became the first police officer in Canada to obtain a doctorate in criminology.[2] His dissertation research resulted in a new criminal investigative methodology called geographic profiling, based on Rossmo's formula. This technology was integrated into a specialized crime analysis software product called Rigel. The Rigel product is developed by the software company Environmental Criminology Research Inc. (ECRI), which Rossmo co-founded.[3]
In 1995, he was promoted to detective inspector and founded a geographic profiling section within the Vancouver Police Department.[4] In 1998, his analysis of cases of missing sex trade workers determined that a serial killer was at work, a conclusion ultimately vindicated by the arrest and conviction of Robert Pickton in 2002. A retired Vancouver police staff sergeant has claimed that animosity toward Rossmo delayed the arrest of Pickton, leaving him free to carry out additional murders.[5] His analytic results were not accepted at the time and after a dispute with senior members of the department he left in 2001. His unsuccessful lawsuit against the Vancouver Police Board for wrongful dismissal exposed considerable apparent dysfunction within that department.[2]
Washington DC and Texas
After serving as director of research at the Police Foundation in Washington, D.C., from 2001 to 2003,[6] he moved to Texas State University where he currently holds the Endowed Chair in Criminology and is director of the Center for Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation.[7] Since then, he has applied techniques of geographic profiling to counterterrorism, animal foraging,[8] biological invasions,[9][10] and epidemiology. He has also researched and published on the subject of criminal investigative failures. He has written three books.
References
- ^ Marcus, Adam (6 May 2021). "Rejection overruled, retraction ensues when annoyed reviewer does deep dive into data". Retraction Watch.
- ^ a b "Rossmo v. Vancouver (City) Police Board". Hamilton Howell. December 19, 2001. Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
- ^ Rich, T. and Shively, M (2004, December). P. 14. A Methodology for Evaluating Geographic Profiling Software. U.S. Department of Justice, Retrieved from https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/208993.pdf
- ^ Medeiros, João. "How geographic profiling helps find serial criminals". Wired.
- ^ "Internal police strife delayed Pickton arrest, former officer says - The Globe and Mail". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 2010-08-24.
- ^ "Kim Rossmo discusses geographic profiling with Big Ideas TXST". news.txst.edu. 16 November 2022.
- ^ "Rising Star Dr. Kim Rossmo". Texas State University-San Marcos. Archived from the original on 12 March 2013. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
- ^ Raine, Nigel E; Rossmo, D. Kim; Le Comber, Steven C (6 March 2009). "Geographic profiling applied to testing models of bumble-bee foraging". Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 6 (32): 307–319. doi:10.1098/rsif.2008.0242. PMC 2659582. PMID 18664426. S2CID 16675378.
- ^ Papini, Alessio; Kim Rossmo, D.; Le Comber, Stephen C.; Verity, Robert; Stevenson, Mark D.; Santosuosso, Ugo (1 March 2017). "The use of jackknifing for the evaluation of geographic profiling reliability". Ecological Informatics. 38: 76–81. doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2017.02.001.
- ^ Stevenson, Mark D.; Rossmo, D. Kim; Knell, Robert J.; Le Comber, Steven C. (August 2012). "Geographic profiling as a novel spatial tool for targeting the control of invasive species". Ecography. 35 (8): 704–715. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.07292.x.
External links
- paper by Rossmo on his method
- speaker bio
- Center for Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation
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