Law enforcement agencies strive to link crimes perpetrated by the same offenders into crime series in order to improve investigation efficiency. Such crime linkage can be done using both physical traces (e.g., DNA or fingerprints) or “soft evidence” in the form of offenders’ modus operandi (MO), i.e. their behaviors during crimes. However, physical traces are only present for a fraction of crimes, unlike behavioral evidence. This position paper presents a method for aggregating multiple criminal profilers’ ratings of offenders’ behavioral characteristics based on feature-rich crime scene descriptions. The method calculates consensus ratings from individual experts’ ratings, which then are used as a basis for classification algorithms. The classification algorithms can automatically generalize offenders’ behavioral characteristics from cues in the crime scene data. Models trained on the consensus rating are evaluated against models trained on individual profiler’s ratings. Thus, whether the consensus model shows improved performance over individual models.
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