Crime Reporting and Rate Responses

Crime Reporting and Rate Responses
CJS 200
2013

Crime Reporting and Rate Responses
The purpose of major crime-reporting programs is to collect data about crime statistics and these statistics help with multiple other reasons for crime reporting.
The statistics provide information about when and where crime is at a higher rate, including the type of crime and occurrences.
This type of information is important to the development of new strategies to prevent and control crime; as well as where or what areas the implementation of new changes or new programs are in greater need, and would benefit the most. There is the benefit that new technology can be used to assist with crime prevention and with crime statistical information new technology can be created to assist law enforcement officers in the collection of evidence and with the arrest and conviction of criminals.

As successful crime reporting program is one where the data collected is noted accurately and can be verifiable. Where crime is reported in a consistent manner with all officers having a thorough understanding of the type of crime they are reporting, where law enforcement agencies are providing truthful and accurate information and numbers and types of crimes are not hidden to benefit an agency or city.
Furthermore; the success of a crime reporting program can be seeing when a new program technique or new changes are made to the laws and crime prevention is implemented in a particular area where a type of crime was reported as high and after the implementation of a program number of crime began to decrease significantly.

Crime rates relate to arrest rates because the ideal situation would be that for every crime there is an arrest and with every arrest there is eventually clearance or a crime solved.
These numbers do not necessarily added up as we would hope, there is always crime, therefore for the number of crimes regardless of where or why type is always growing and