Mike, I think that, for crime analysis, CrimeStats (freeware) is the proper tool to use ( <http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/CrimeStat/> http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/CrimeStat/). But it doesn't have a graphical interface, so you could use Maptitude as a geographical database and visualization tool. CrimeStats manual is very detailed and a great source to learn spatial analysis or spatial statistics.
I use a old copy of TransCad (Maptitude's big brother for transportation analysis) and many Crimestats tools would be useful if implemented in Maptitude/TransCAD. Recently, I used it to do a basic traffic accident analysis finding the accidents hotspots using the nearest neighbor clustering technique and kernel density functions. I used Crimestat to process the data stored in TransCAD and then TransCAD was used to present the results of CrimeStats with thematic maps. Best regards, Marcelo Luna.
