Predictive Policing Scott A. Lorenzen Strayer University Abstract What is Predictive Policing? Defined by the National Institute of Justice “Predictive policing is a way to predict, plan, dissuade possible crimes of occurring using current information with advanced analysis applied to the information to assist those in charge of daily security task.” (NIOJ, para 1). As Information Systems becomes more complex by the hour how authentic is or is not the data provided. Predictive Policing Compare and contrast the application of Information Technology (IT) to optimize police departments’ performance to reduce crime versus random patrols of the streets. Today's police have an advantage over their counterparts of the 60's and 70's with the help of the invention of the computer, new processes, and new calculations being processed.
Predictive Policing Strayer University CIS 500 Information Systems for Decision Making Abstract This paper researches COMPuter STATistic (CompStat). CompStat is a crime fighting strategy in which is used to locate where different crimes are occurring and map problem areas. Different agencies are using this method to predict future crimes so that the crimes can be prevented. This is called predictive policing. In this paper information technology will be discussed and how it is optimized in police departments to reduce different crimes.
Sir Robert Peel- The impact on American Policing and History Sir Robert Peel created the Metropolitan Police in 1829 as he served as Home Secretary of England. Peel had many keys in policing and believed that prevention of criminal activities could be accomplished. His establishments nine principle of policing are still relevant today. Peel’s concept of prevention was community policing that has been implemented by other law enforcements across the country and was based on goals to prevent crime and obtain better community partnership. Community policing required special training in mediation and conflict, problem-solving and analysis, community organization, facilitation, communication, network, and linkages, and cross-cultural competency.
Exact expectancy, timely targeted action and reduce resources for casual patrolling turns into achievable goals. NIJ defines Predictive Policing as “taking data from disparate sources, analyzing them and then using the results to anticipate, prevent and respond more effectively to future crime” This paved way for development of COMPSTAT (Computer Statistics) which used all crime related data as its input to anticipate a crime. (Willis, J., et al, 2004) 2. Describe how COMPSTAT, as an information system (IS), implements the four (4) basic IS functions: Input - Data gathering development which is the building block of COMPSTAT comprises of information compiled from an array of sources like police incidents, arrest reports, suspect debriefing, telephone calls, and field interview reports. Approaching the inputs to Incident Reporting System will help to retain a
Controlling Organized Crime Lance Cohen CJA/384 September 25, 2011 Bryan M. Kaminski Controlling Organized Crime Once organized crime is defined, then theories can be applied using those principles of the theories to help understand the problems and various relationships of organized crime. A number of legal limitations exist resulting in combating organized crime difficult. These include some major federal laws that although are meant to stop organized crime have some flaws. In evaluating the effectiveness of organized crime prosecutions, some realistic solutions can be discovered to control organized crime. Organized crime can have a number of different definitions, depending on the organization or academic person defining it.
The information they gathered from this and the FBI’s experience and intuition they developed the classification system. This classification is why the US approach is a top-down approach. There are stages to the US Approach which are; data assimilation, crime scene classification, crime reconstruction and profile generation. Data assimilation is where all the data is collected from the crime scene, e.g. pictures, autopsy, witness reports etc.
oncern around the accuracy of data collected by the police for recorded crimes fuelled recognition within the police service that a more robust system for recording crime was needed. Hence the National Crime Recording Standard was developed and adopted by all forces. This, amongst other things, placed emphasis on victims’ feelings and sees recorded as crimes whatever victims feel or report as crimes. Similarly, an act of a multiple theft which would have previously been recorded as a single crime is now recorded as multiple crimes. The National Offences List1 defines all of those crimes which should be recorded by police and notified to the Home Office.
The first telescope was used by Italian Galileo in sixteen hundred and nine; Galileo was able to make out a few fuzzy crates on the moon’s surface. For many centuries after that humans improved on telescopes, building bigger and better telescopes. But eventually building bigger and better telescopes no longer improved our view. Earth’s atmosphere would always distort light, or bend the light rays astronomers could see. The earth’s atmosphere was limiting how far we could see into space, so astronomers decided to bypass the atmosphere.
He has hundreds of documents about the origin of the Moon’s rocks brought by Apollo. He commented that scientists from different countries (not only NASA’s employees) had researched these samples. As a result of all the investigations, they assured that the pieces of glass are from the moon. Three facts were exposed to make credible that man did walk on the Moon: the first evidence was the samples which the astronauts brought from the Moon, the second one is that these rocks cannot be found in the earth; and the last one is the different studies that have been done with the same result, the rocks came from the Moon. We can
“Today, organized crime comes at us from every corner of the globe.” (FBI.gov, 2012) In this illustration the writer will discuss how to identify the problems and relationships established by organized crime, describe the limitation in fighting against organized crime, and assert this writer’s suggestions to controlling organized crime. Controlling Organized Crime Organized crime has various theories. “Various theories on organized crime have been presented over the years to help social scientists to better understand this phenomenon.” (Lyman & Potter, 2007) There are several theories of organized crime; they are alien conspiracy, rational choice, deterrence, social disorganization, organizational, and cultural defiance (Lyman & Potter, 2007). These theories focus on the individual with regards to their behavior. The alien conspiracy theory believes that outside influences determine a person’s behavior.