Errors In Crime Strategy Meetings

Crime strategy meetings occur in nearly all major municipal police agencies in the United States. They are business meetings among the agencies that attend, so they can share information. The main focus of the meetings is to discuss the potential tactical intervention targeting a specific crime trend or pattern. The crime meetings should include the chief of police or sheriff(Hoover,2014).
Some of the measurement errors that occur in crime strategy meetings is the lack of linkage between measurement and strategy. This includes being able to measure all arrest, whether officer initiated or product of a call-for-service. This includes using aggregate UCR offense categories rather than actionable subgroups. The inability to link arrest to specific