Predictive Policing
Predictive Policing
By
Amiracle L. Grace
CIS500 Information Systems for Decision Making
Professor Constance Blanson
Strayer University
July 16, 2014
ABSTRACT
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Introduction
In previous and the most recent years, police officers have increased their use of new technologies to become more effective when it comes to reducing crime. The oldest technology that has been used is COMPSTAT formerly known as Computer Statistics. COMPSTAT has been around to implement strategies in law enforcement on stopping crime before it starts. COMPSTAT builds onto the UCR (Uniform Crime Report) to analyze which crime is being mostly committed, the county (or city), which age group and ethnicity is committing those crimes. COMPSTAT relies on human recognition patterns based on past crimes (Goode, 2011). In 1994, COMPSTAT was developed within the New York Police Departments. The New York Police Department used COMPSTAT to manage crime. COMPSTAT has been proven to be extremely effective within the New York Police Department. It has become a great success in controlling crimes and its disorder within the police jurisdiction. COMPSTAT is used for strategic decision-making when targeting crime in areas of the city. COMPSTAT is a database that includes daily crime counts by each precinct (Henry, ). In the beginning, police officers of the New York Police Department hand wrote crime complaint reports and the clerical personnel of the precinct typed every single data that was found. The data was viewed by the department supervisors. COMPSTAT has also been used for crime-mapping technology to determine location where crime was taken place (Henry, ). Just like COMPSTAT, police officer uses Predictive Policing to also reduce crime. Predictive policing is there to reduce crime and to improve better public safety. Predictive policing also
By
Amiracle L. Grace
CIS500 Information Systems for Decision Making
Professor Constance Blanson
Strayer University
July 16, 2014
ABSTRACT
You will briefly read about
Table of Contents
Introduction
In previous and the most recent years, police officers have increased their use of new technologies to become more effective when it comes to reducing crime. The oldest technology that has been used is COMPSTAT formerly known as Computer Statistics. COMPSTAT has been around to implement strategies in law enforcement on stopping crime before it starts. COMPSTAT builds onto the UCR (Uniform Crime Report) to analyze which crime is being mostly committed, the county (or city), which age group and ethnicity is committing those crimes. COMPSTAT relies on human recognition patterns based on past crimes (Goode, 2011). In 1994, COMPSTAT was developed within the New York Police Departments. The New York Police Department used COMPSTAT to manage crime. COMPSTAT has been proven to be extremely effective within the New York Police Department. It has become a great success in controlling crimes and its disorder within the police jurisdiction. COMPSTAT is used for strategic decision-making when targeting crime in areas of the city. COMPSTAT is a database that includes daily crime counts by each precinct (Henry, ). In the beginning, police officers of the New York Police Department hand wrote crime complaint reports and the clerical personnel of the precinct typed every single data that was found. The data was viewed by the department supervisors. COMPSTAT has also been used for crime-mapping technology to determine location where crime was taken place (Henry, ). Just like COMPSTAT, police officer uses Predictive Policing to also reduce crime. Predictive policing is there to reduce crime and to improve better public safety. Predictive policing also
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