Kim Rossmo
Kim Rossmo | |
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| 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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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.
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- ^ 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
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External links
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