In Sherman and colleagues' research dealing with crime hot spots, they chose to use "calls for service" to local law enforcement as a means of measuring where different types of crimes happened with greatest frequency. They noted some problems with the use of calls for service. Which of the following represents those problems?
A) there is a potential for duplicate calls to local law enforcement for any one event
B) there may be false reports; in other words, no crime happened
C) there can be misleading findings, such as parking lots or hospitals appearing to be hot spots when in fact they are not
D) all of the above

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Sherman and colleagues identified several issues with using calls for service as a measure for crime hot spots, including the potential for duplicate calls for the same event, false reports where no crime actually occurred, and misleading findings that could incorrectly identify places like parking lots or hospitals as crime hot spots.

In Sherman and Colleagues' Research Dealing with Crime Hot Spots