Computers and Software Programs of the Three Branches of Criminal Justice System
Computers and Software Programs of the Three Branches of Criminal Justice System
Police officers are tasked with controlling crime, maintain order, responding to emergency calls, regulating traffic, and so much more including putting their life on the line. The amount of crime and work greatly overshadows the already limited police resources available. Because of this imbalance we look towards technology to giving our officers and judges the upper hand on the criminals. The use of computers doesn’t just impact our police officers but all three branches of Criminal Justice System: Police, courts, and corrections. I’ll be talking about some of the technology that each of these branches use to do their jobs most effectively and efficiently.
Today’s police officer has many computer and computerized tools to help them in their everyday workload. In every patrol car is a in-car camera system used to recorded the going on of the officer in charge of that vehicle. These systems give the officers the ability to record any events from a patrol car perspective. Allowing officers to document any stops or arrest made on video for evidence. So if someone tried to say that what happened was different from the officers report they can refer back to the video. Also set up in certain stop lights or high traffic areas there are photo enforcement systems. These cameras are used to catch people speeding or running red lights, if it see you doing these things it will snap a picture of you and your license plate. They will be sent to a database where your information will be gathered and ticket sent to you by mail. These cameras free up our officers to do more of their jobs. Valuable time is saved thanks to electronic white boards. Before any information written down on a white board would have to be taken and re written to keep it on file, but thanks to these boards any thing written on them are electronically transferred to a computer and saved
Police officers are tasked with controlling crime, maintain order, responding to emergency calls, regulating traffic, and so much more including putting their life on the line. The amount of crime and work greatly overshadows the already limited police resources available. Because of this imbalance we look towards technology to giving our officers and judges the upper hand on the criminals. The use of computers doesn’t just impact our police officers but all three branches of Criminal Justice System: Police, courts, and corrections. I’ll be talking about some of the technology that each of these branches use to do their jobs most effectively and efficiently.
Today’s police officer has many computer and computerized tools to help them in their everyday workload. In every patrol car is a in-car camera system used to recorded the going on of the officer in charge of that vehicle. These systems give the officers the ability to record any events from a patrol car perspective. Allowing officers to document any stops or arrest made on video for evidence. So if someone tried to say that what happened was different from the officers report they can refer back to the video. Also set up in certain stop lights or high traffic areas there are photo enforcement systems. These cameras are used to catch people speeding or running red lights, if it see you doing these things it will snap a picture of you and your license plate. They will be sent to a database where your information will be gathered and ticket sent to you by mail. These cameras free up our officers to do more of their jobs. Valuable time is saved thanks to electronic white boards. Before any information written down on a white board would have to be taken and re written to keep it on file, but thanks to these boards any thing written on them are electronically transferred to a computer and saved