COMPUTER SYSTEM
West Hollywood has installed a new computer system in its city offices that allows city staff to analyze crime and demographic information in a new way.
With the Geographic Information Systems technology, city staff can superimpose information, such as crime statistics, onto a computerized map of West Hollywood. If city employees want to know, for example, where the most robberies take place in West Hollywood, the system can tell them.
“We have information about how many families live where--we have it by address,” said Peter Wolff, associate transportation engineer for West Hollywood.
Much of the data available in the system is taken from the census, although the crime statistics are compiled by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s West Hollywood station, Wolff said. Eventually, West Hollywood plans to make some of the information generated by the system available on the city’s World Wide Web site.
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