Kim Rossmo quotes

“One piece of graffiti doesn't mean much. Forty pieces of graffiti might mean something... It's all about connecting the dots.”
-- Kim Rossmo

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“What geographic profiling does is it takes a look at the locations of a connected series of incidents - say murders in a serial murder case or robberies in a serial bank robber case - and it spatially analyzes the point pattern of incidents, and creates a probability surface from those, working from the basis of an algorithm that says people offend close to where they live, but not too close.”
-- Kim Rossmo

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“Let's say I take a picture of the Eiffel Tower in front of the casino in Las Vegas. That type of pattern might suggest I'm just a tourist. But if my next one is of another dam or electrical station, someone might say 'Well, that's kind of strange'. What do the different pieces of the puzzle mean when you put them together? And one of the advantages of geographic profiling in geography is a common denominator for so many different types of information sources.”
-- Kim Rossmo

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“In some places - particularly in Asia and Europe - you often see anti-government graffiti, seditious slogans, banners, leaflets, in certain neighbourhoods. The idea is that rather than wait for an explosion to occur from a bomb, it would be useful to gather intelligence on the location of these incidents.”
-- Kim Rossmo

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“I think Banksy is a very cool artist, and I respect his social messages.”
-- Kim Rossmo

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“The idea is to use minor events that are believed to be related to a terrorist organization, so graffiti is one of them, banners and leaflets are others, but also a lot of minor crimes if you can connect them with the group - credit card fraud, thefts - these types of things have been used to support them.”
-- Kim Rossmo

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“I think the terrorism watch list in the United States went over a million people some years ago.”
-- Kim Rossmo

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“Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.”

“The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.”

“Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: Yids, go back to Palestine, so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlarge shouts at us: Yids, get out of Palestine.”

“Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.”

“Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.”

“After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.”

Source : "Jeffrey Deitch" by Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2010.

“Everybody's trying to leave their mark on the world. That's why there's graffiti and babies.”

“Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”

“I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.”

“I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.”

Source : "Composer Abel Korzeniowski on Sundance, Scores, Career". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. February 5, 2013.