Uniform Crime Reports and National Crime Information Center 1 Krystal Policing in America – 3 Professor Traci Ciepiela April 24, 2013 Uniform Crime Reports and National Crime Information Center 2 Abstract Since 1929 the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) has been a major source of data on crime. The Uniform Crime Reports data have been published each year, and since 1958, they have been available in the publication Crime in the United States. In 1967 the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) was created by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in response to an alarming increase in crime within the United States. All of the U.S. states and the District of Columbia were part of the (NCIC) system, by 1971. Uniform Crime Reports and National Crime Information Center 3 (UCR) and (NCIC) The use of Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) is to provide law enforcement with data for use in budget formulation, planning, resource allocation, assessment of police operations etc, to help address the crime problem at various levels.
• SEC-Securities and Exchange Commission: The SEC’s purpose is to “serve as a repository and examiner for registration statements filed by companies planning to sell stock to the general public; providing information on securities to investors; advising on some bankruptcy reorganizations; and investigating and initiating action when federal securities laws are violated and frauds are committed.” The SEC’s job is to protect investors by regulating a policing the securities market. Friedrichs, David O. Trusted Criminals: White Collar Crime In Contemporary Society, 4th Edition. Cengage Learning, 06/2009. VitalBook file.
It can be easily changed, as laws can be changed/introduced without the need for entrenchment as the British constitution is un-codified. Another benefit of this legal flexibility is that it can easily adapt to changing circumstances within parliament such as referendum use and the changing role of the House of Lords. Whereas if it was codified, constitutional changes would be very difficult and time consuming. It can also respond quickly to a changing political climate. After the 9/11 attacks on the world trade centre in 2001, the threat of international terrorism has become significantly reduced.
When the officer is finished on the call, the bottom part of the cfs has a racial profile tab that is to be filled out. This information is what is logged so that the officer that fills the UCR out at the end of the month can use this information to collect the data needed. If this information is not filled in correctly, it will cause the wrong data to be logged into the UCR. It is a good idea to log all of this information and the FBI to take every department’s data and put it into one log. This will show what time of year, which season, if it is hot or cold, if it is near a holiday, etc… that the crime rates increase or decrease.
For this report the book that I have is The Enemy Within by Robert F. Kennedy. Robert Kennedy was born in 1925 and died in 1968. Da Capo Press published this book in 1960 in New York. This book is about the Select Committee investigating crime in the labor union. The Committee bases this book on reports from investigations.
Lower crime rates is another possible positive outcome. There would be more opportunity available for employment if the bill is passed as there would be a demand within the facilities to manage the increased number of inmates. There would be a decreased cost for tax payers for rehabilitation programs. And finally, the most impactful positive outcome would be the justice brought to the victims of armed robbery. All of these possible outcome would benefit the public
Paper files can be lost, damaged, stolen, or subjected to natural disasters. Electronic records avoid those situations and offers greater safeguards for patient records. Cost efficiencies through data consolidation are also pros of moving to electronic health records. Because a centralize location is established for those records it reduces the duplication of documents and increases the speed of exchanging the information. Some cons of moving to the office-based electronic health records the perceived threat to privacy.
As technology advances, many new ways of communicating have opened. We live in the communication world of faxes, cellular phones, and internet access. The combining of communication and technology brings integration, immediacy, collaboration, and access. Technology within the criminal justice is nothing but good in fact I cannot find anything bad to say about it, criminals are easier to identify, find, and prosecute more than ever before due to essential forms of technology. The easier it is to identify the criminal the easier it is to get that criminal of the street essentially making the community a safer place to live in.
COMPSTAT short for Computer Statistic was invented by a group of researchers Mathematicians George Mohler and Martin Short, Criminologist George Tita, and an Anthropologist Jeff Brantingham. Their vision was that COMPSTAT would predict crimes as meteorologist predict the weather and try to avoid them (Goode, E. 2011). COMPSTAT works by collecting weekly statistics of crimes and police activities and this information is entered into a database to produce a report that will show arrest activities, citizens complains, and crime patterns. At police departments, officers are given a list of high crime spots to patrol daily. These crimes spots are predicted using COMPSTAT.
But wether one is from a big city or not, Mr. Beller's use of similes makes the text understandable and relatable to everyone. The text is written in a first person point of view, encouraging the reader to trust the author more. Arguably, the gender and upbringing of the reader brings the understanding of the text to vary. If one might be from a big city, this might be more relatable as if one is from a non-rural area or might not own a car, this scenario is not as relatable but the outcome is the same. The imagery of the dead corps flowing outside the car window, help the persuasive tone of the text.