{{short description|Canadian criminologist (born 1955)}} {{infobox scientist |name=Kim Rossmo |birth_date={{birth year and age|1955}} |birth_place=Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada |alma_mater=Simon Fraser University |occupation=Criminologist |fields=Criminology }} '''Kim Rossmo''' (born 1955) is a Canadian criminologist specializing in geographic profiling.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Marcus |first1=Adam |title=Rejection overruled, retraction ensues when annoyed reviewer does deep dive into data |url=https://retractionwatch.com/2021/05/06/rejection-overruled-retraction-ensues-when-annoyed-reviewer-does-deep-dive-into-data/ |website=Retraction Watch |date=6 May 2021}}</ref>
==Career== He joined the Vancouver Police Department as a civilian employee in 1978 and became a sworn officer in 1980. In 1987 he received a master's degree in criminology from Simon Fraser University and in 1995 became the first police officer in Canada to obtain a doctorate in criminology.<ref name="Rossmo v. Vancouver">{{cite web|url=http://www.hamiltonhowell.ca/cases/rossmo.htm|title=Rossmo v. Vancouver (City) Police Board|date=December 19, 2001|publisher=Hamilton Howell|access-date=22 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706182046/http://www.hamiltonhowell.ca/cases/rossmo.htm|archive-date=2011-07-06}}</ref> His dissertation research resulted in a new criminal investigative methodology called geographic profiling, based on Rossmo's formula. This technology was integrated into a specialized crime analysis software product called [http://www.ecricanada.com/rigel/ Rigel]. The Rigel product is developed by the software company Environmental Criminology Research Inc. (ECRI), which Rossmo co-founded.<ref>Rich, T. and Shively, M (2004, December). P. 14. A Methodology for Evaluating Geographic Profiling Software. U.S. Department of Justice, Retrieved from https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/208993.pdf</ref>
In 1995, he was promoted to detective inspector and founded a geographic profiling section within the Vancouver Police Department.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Medeiros |first1=João |title=How geographic profiling helps find serial criminals |url=https://www.wired.com/story/mapping-murder/ |website=Wired}}</ref> In 1998, his analysis of cases of missing sex trade workers determined that a serial killer was at work, a conclusion ultimately vindicated by the arrest and conviction of Robert Pickton in 2002. A retired Vancouver police staff sergeant has claimed that animosity toward Rossmo delayed the arrest of Pickton, leaving him free to carry out additional murders.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/internal-police-strife-delayed-pickton-arrest-former-officer-says/article1667514/| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100824074205/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/internal-police-strife-delayed-pickton-arrest-former-officer-says/article1667514/| archive-date = 2010-08-24| title = Internal police strife delayed Pickton arrest, former officer says - The Globe and Mail| website = The Globe and Mail}}</ref> His analytic results were not accepted at the time and after a dispute with senior members of the department he left in 2001. His unsuccessful lawsuit against the Vancouver Police Board for wrongful dismissal exposed considerable apparent dysfunction within that department.<ref name="Rossmo v. Vancouver"/>
===Washington DC and Texas=== After serving as director of research at the Police Foundation in Washington, D.C., from 2001 to 2003,<ref>{{cite web |title=Kim Rossmo discusses geographic profiling with Big Ideas TXST |url=https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2021/kim-rossmo-big-ideas-txst.html |website=news.txst.edu |language=en |date=16 November 2022}}</ref> he moved to Texas State University where he currently holds the Endowed Chair in Criminology and is director of the Center for Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.txstate.edu/rising-stars/kim-rossmo.html |title=Rising Star Dr. Kim Rossmo |publisher=Texas State University-San Marcos |access-date=22 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130312085250/http://www.txstate.edu/rising-stars/kim-rossmo.html |archive-date=12 March 2013 }}</ref> Since then, he has applied techniques of geographic profiling to counterterrorism, animal foraging,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Raine |first1=Nigel E |last2=Rossmo |first2=D. Kim |last3=Le Comber |first3=Steven C |title=Geographic profiling applied to testing models of bumble-bee foraging |journal=Journal of the Royal Society Interface |date=6 March 2009 |volume=6 |issue=32 |pages=307–319 |doi=10.1098/rsif.2008.0242 |pmid=18664426 |pmc=2659582 |s2cid=16675378 }}</ref> biological invasions,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Papini |first1=Alessio |last2=Kim Rossmo |first2=D. |last3=Le Comber |first3=Stephen C. |last4=Verity |first4=Robert |last5=Stevenson |first5=Mark D. |last6=Santosuosso |first6=Ugo |title=The use of jackknifing for the evaluation of geographic profiling reliability |journal=Ecological Informatics |date=1 March 2017 |volume=38 |pages=76–81 |doi=10.1016/j.ecoinf.2017.02.001 |url=http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/25165 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stevenson |first1=Mark D. |last2=Rossmo |first2=D. Kim |last3=Knell |first3=Robert J. |last4=Le Comber |first4=Steven C. |title=Geographic profiling as a novel spatial tool for targeting the control of invasive species |journal=Ecography |date=August 2012 |volume=35 |issue=8 |pages=704–715 |doi=10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.07292.x |doi-access=free }}</ref> and epidemiology. He has also researched and published on the subject of criminal investigative failures. He has written three books.
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== External links== *[http://www.popcenter.org/library/crimeprevention/volume_04/10-Rossmo.pdf paper by Rossmo on his method] *[http://www.ideacityonline.com/presenters/kim-rossmo speaker bio] *[http://www.txstate.edu/gii/ Center for Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation]
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