Major Crime
• What is the purpose of major crime-reporting programs? What makes a successful crime-reporting program in the United States?
The purpose for major crime-reporting programs is to try to improve the methology and to publish the collective data. So by having major crime-reporting programs the law enforcement agencies are able to get information and also collect data to figure out the crime patterns of the nation instead of just one spot. This is hard though because not all of the crimes that end up happening get reported. So by this being said not everything can go into the crime-reporting programs. I think the government needs to try to find another way to get these “smaller” none reported crimes to be reported. What makes a successful crime reporting program in the United States is that most of the crimes do get reported the way that they should, and that the police officers are doing their job to the best of their abilities. I think it could be stepped up a notch and maybe put camaras in the cruisers so the crimes that do not get reported at least have a sign to get reported.
• How do crime rates relate to arrest rates and clearance rates? Is there a way to improve the correlation between crime rates, arrest rates, and clearance rates in the effort to combat criminal activity?
Crime rates are when the number is divided by the total number of crimes that are what they called “cleared.” This is when the crime is closed, finished or they found the criminal in whatever was going on with the crime.
To combat criminal activity the police can gather the information from the UCR (uniform crime report). From what I was reading “ clearance rates is the percentage of crimes that have been closed by arrest, exceptional means, etc.”
So in my opinion to help improve the correlation between crime rates, arrest rates and clearance rates, is to get all the facts straight. Do not jump from one to the other. Gather all the information that you can, and see what is
The purpose for major crime-reporting programs is to try to improve the methology and to publish the collective data. So by having major crime-reporting programs the law enforcement agencies are able to get information and also collect data to figure out the crime patterns of the nation instead of just one spot. This is hard though because not all of the crimes that end up happening get reported. So by this being said not everything can go into the crime-reporting programs. I think the government needs to try to find another way to get these “smaller” none reported crimes to be reported. What makes a successful crime reporting program in the United States is that most of the crimes do get reported the way that they should, and that the police officers are doing their job to the best of their abilities. I think it could be stepped up a notch and maybe put camaras in the cruisers so the crimes that do not get reported at least have a sign to get reported.
• How do crime rates relate to arrest rates and clearance rates? Is there a way to improve the correlation between crime rates, arrest rates, and clearance rates in the effort to combat criminal activity?
Crime rates are when the number is divided by the total number of crimes that are what they called “cleared.” This is when the crime is closed, finished or they found the criminal in whatever was going on with the crime.
To combat criminal activity the police can gather the information from the UCR (uniform crime report). From what I was reading “ clearance rates is the percentage of crimes that have been closed by arrest, exceptional means, etc.”
So in my opinion to help improve the correlation between crime rates, arrest rates and clearance rates, is to get all the facts straight. Do not jump from one to the other. Gather all the information that you can, and see what is