I watched the first episode of Numb3rs and, IIRC, he found the likely home of the criminal by drawing an analogy from the pattern of crimes to a garden sprinkler.
I did not watch any more episodes.
I did not watch any more episodes.
So, plot a torus with the center on the offenders home, and most crimes will occur on the disk. This would also work with the pattern a radial lawn sprinkler would make.
Unfortunately, while neat theories, the reproduction crisis is happening in criminology as well and I can’t find a good systemic review that says either theory is particularly good. But criminologists believe them, so the show isn’t that far off in those regards.
I dunno, they use a whole swathe of dodgy nonsense already.