Limitations
Although geographic profiling is a useful tool for assisting investigations, like any other models there are numerous limitations:
- It only considers the spatial behavior of serial offenders.
- It may not distinguish between multiple offenders operating in the same area and following similar modus operandi.
- Although computer systems can be highly sophisticated, they cannot analyze all the information involved in a crime series and they are only as good as the accuracy of their algorithms' underlying assumptions.
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