Predictive Policing Information Systems Decision Making CIS500 October 21‚ 2013 To efficiently compare and contrast the application of information technology (IT) to optimize police departments’ performance to reduce crime versus random patrols of the streets‚ we first have to look at exactly what information technology is available to police today. One popular technology that is used by police departments is COMPSTAT abbreviated for computer statistics. Compstat is a "strategic control
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with community policing. In some ways it turned out good but in some ways it turned out bad. It seems as if most of these have failed. Community policing programs are being embraced by many different police departments all over the world. The police officers that are assigned to community policing are asked to engages in problem solving. In a recent survey of the heads of law enforcement agencies across the country‚ a full 46% reported that they had implemented a community policing program (Wycoff
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FZ1105 - Technology and Policing Module Tutor - Word Count: 958 Deadline: 12 February 2012 Learning Outcome: Describe current‚ relevant legislation‚ policies‚ procedures‚ codes of practice and guidelines in relation to gathering‚ submitting‚ retaining‚ recording and disseminating information. Scenario: The Divisional Commander at Ashbridge Division‚ Hamiltonshire Police has been very concerned for some time about vehicle crime in the Boxton Heath area of the town. She asks her staff to be
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Berkeley police department‚ first as sheriff and later as Berkeley’s first chief of police‚ Vollmer learned that police officers had very little literature and education on policing. One of Vollmer’s first acts established bicycle patrols
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on critical issues involved in policing. I will first provide examples of technology involved in policing and how technology enhances or detracts from police organizations’ ability to function. Secondly‚ I will provide examples of less-than lethal weapons and how less-than lethal weapons affect policing in todays’ society. Last‚ I will show examples of dangers faced by police and how police organizations’ address these dangers. Examples of technology used in policing and how technology enhances or
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RICHARD L ALEXANDER “COMMUNITY ERA OF POLICING” OCTOBER 26‚ 2012 MODULE 1 ISSUE PAPER QUESTION 2 Kelling and Moore in their article “The Evolving Strategy of Policing” state that in the 1970’s police agencies entered into a new organizational strategy known as the ‘Community Era. ‘ They contend we are still in this era in 2012. They further describe this era as something “new” and “different.” It is through this strategic era and its employed tactics that police
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Policing Relationships in other Organizations CJS/210 July 26‚ 2015 Olivia Moore Jeffery Scott 2. Policing Relationships in other Organizations The US government has two types of police the Federal and State Governments. The Federal police consist of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Think some teenagers are getting out of hand these days‚ or heading down the wrong path? There are many different types of alternative punishment; the amount of juvenile crime would dramatically drop if any of these were more greatly enforced. The most effective way to help these teenagers and to get them started down the correct path is enforcing alternative punishment upon them. This form of punishment is sometimes also known as juvenile justice‚ restorative justice‚ and community justice (Karp
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What trends are currently impacting policing? The biggest issues affecting policing trends are new technology. The rapid growth of technological advancements will continue to boost social weakness and fear‚ giving terrorist and criminal’s new methods and opportunities‚ and police new tools to stop them. In almost every area‚ technology is wiping away traditional working methods faster than people can adapt to the new possibilities becoming available to them. Since the 9/11 attack on the US people
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Adoption: The Alternative to Abortion The word “positive” is both feared and revered by women around the globe. A simple plus sign on a pregnancy test can be cause for elation or terror. Nearly half of pregnancies among American women are unintended‚ and four in 10 of these are terminated by abortion (Finer and Henshaw 2001). Abortion‚ legalized in 1973 by the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade‚ is defined by the Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law as the termination of a pregnancy after‚ accompanied
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