New paper has been published online (link).

This study detected emerging clusters of four types of crime (larceny, auto theft, burglary, and robbery) in Atlanta using space-time permutation scan statistics, inviestigated how the spatiotemporal patterns of these clusters changed during the pandemic compared to the pre-pandemic period, and classified the detected clusters based on their duration and radius.

From this paper, we suggest that this study helps prioritize future police force deployment and resource allocation in similar lockdown environments in future.