The document discusses using data mining techniques like clustering algorithms to help detect criminal methods and patterns from crime data. It proposes applying a weighted k-means clustering approach to group similar crimes together based on important attributes. This would help identify potential criminal patterns and present them to detectives in a geospatial plot, highlighting crime clusters. The results were checked against court case outcomes and some criminal patterns were confirmed. The authors conclude the method helps detectives by organizing large crime datasets but requires close collaboration and domain knowledge to effectively map real crime data for mining.