Leadership Style: What Do People Do When They Are
Assignment 1: Predictive Policing
Karla N. Osorno
Strayer University
CIS 500 - Information Systems for Decision Making
CIS500006VA016-1126-001
Professor: Alex Lazo
July 13, 2012
1. Compare and contrast the application of information technology (IT) to optimize police department’s performance to reduce crime versus random patrols of the streets.
Compare the application of IT versus random patrol of the streets: a. Both random patrol of the streets and Compstat want to make communities safer by reducing crime. b. To both of them, their fundamental mission is to serve the members of the public who are certainly concerned about safe streets but also want a positive and constructive relationship with the officers who patrol their neighborhoods. c. Scarcity of resources and political pressures may limit departments’ freedom to allocate resources to specific crime problems. d. Compstat and community policing, are on opposing cultural assumptions, is a significant challenge facing police leaders in the twenty-first century.
Contrast: IT versus random patrol of the streets:
a. The police departments that utilize COMPSTAT are based on the collection of information and analysis of such information contrary to random patrol of the streets, which do not utilize data collection and neither it’s analyzed.
b. Previously to Compstat, the departments had merely conducted an annual review of local Part I crime rates collected in the UCR. The purpose of this brief examination was to provide departments with a general indication of their overall crime-control performance for the preceding year.
c. In contrast to the sluggish availability of these data and their relatively narrow focus, each department’s Compstat program played a continuous and critical role in the department-wide process of identifying specific crimes as soon as they emerged, driving decision making, and facilitating problem solving strategies.
d. The three departments now have daily
Karla N. Osorno
Strayer University
CIS 500 - Information Systems for Decision Making
CIS500006VA016-1126-001
Professor: Alex Lazo
July 13, 2012
1. Compare and contrast the application of information technology (IT) to optimize police department’s performance to reduce crime versus random patrols of the streets.
Compare the application of IT versus random patrol of the streets: a. Both random patrol of the streets and Compstat want to make communities safer by reducing crime. b. To both of them, their fundamental mission is to serve the members of the public who are certainly concerned about safe streets but also want a positive and constructive relationship with the officers who patrol their neighborhoods. c. Scarcity of resources and political pressures may limit departments’ freedom to allocate resources to specific crime problems. d. Compstat and community policing, are on opposing cultural assumptions, is a significant challenge facing police leaders in the twenty-first century.
Contrast: IT versus random patrol of the streets:
a. The police departments that utilize COMPSTAT are based on the collection of information and analysis of such information contrary to random patrol of the streets, which do not utilize data collection and neither it’s analyzed.
b. Previously to Compstat, the departments had merely conducted an annual review of local Part I crime rates collected in the UCR. The purpose of this brief examination was to provide departments with a general indication of their overall crime-control performance for the preceding year.
c. In contrast to the sluggish availability of these data and their relatively narrow focus, each department’s Compstat program played a continuous and critical role in the department-wide process of identifying specific crimes as soon as they emerged, driving decision making, and facilitating problem solving strategies.
d. The three departments now have daily
References: Turban, E., & Volotino, L., (2011). Information technology for management, 8th ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., p.14 Willis, J.J., Mastrofski, S.D., & Weisburd, D. (2003). Compstat in practice: An in-depth analysis of three cities. Police Foundation. http://www.policefoundation.org/pdf/compstatinpractice.pdf Retrieved July 9, 2012. Erica Goode, The New York Times, Published August 15, 2011. Retrieved July 9, 2012