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The Dane County Sheriff’s Office is taking a new approach in looking at domestic violence. By using data to map reports of domestic violence situations, patterns begin to emerge. Domestic crimes aren’t a pattern crime in the sense that a suspect typically doesn’t go out and commit five domestics at various locations like a burglar might, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t useful information in the gathering of domestic calls by time and location.

In a project that is still in its infancy, the Sheriff’s Office looked at 2,010 domestic incidents that occurred between January of...