Explore and explain each of the following items in your initial response:

1. Using critical thinking explain how crime analysis using GIS mapping technology may be applied to a crime of your choice e.g., serial serial rapist etc. In doing so, discuss at least one Crime-Mapping Strategy discussed in the literature and how you would use it.

2. Is crime mapping an effective tool in combating crime?  Why?  Describe how crime mapping can be used to support tactical operations.