technology in our society, it is no surprise that we can use software for process improvement as well. Predictive policing is a perfect example of this combination of a proven process and information technology coming together to create an effective tool. Compstat (COMPuter STATistics) is one such tool that has optimized police departments abilities to predict and reduce crime when compared to random street patrols. Our society is sophisticated on many levels and crime is no different. Just as we have advancements
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Master of Science in Information Systems CIS 500 – Information Systems for Decision Making Name: Sindhura Garikapati Assignment Title: Predictive Policing Professor: Dr. Mark Cohen Date: 8 July 2014 ABSTRACT Predictive policing relies on using advanced technological tools and data analysis to take proactive measures to pre-empt crime. Predictive policing
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Predictive Policing Walter Clay Strayer University Predictive Policing In order to compare and contrast the application of information technology (IT) to optimize police departments’ performance to reduce crime versus random patrols of the streets. We have to look into the technologies available to them today. Predictive policing has become the one of leading standard for police departments today. Predictive policing primary role is to simply pre-empt crime, it is rooted heavily in business
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Predictive Policing By Jamia Yant April 13th, 2012 According to mirriam-webster dictionary, optimization means “an act, process, or methodology of making something (as a design, system, or decision) as fully perfect, functional, or effective as possible” So if we compare the optimization of the police force by using information technology versus random patrol of street we have to look at what each is. For the use of application technology we also have to look at what kind of technology
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contrast the application of information technology (IT) to optimize police departments’ performance to reduce crime versus random patrols of the streets. A promising new technology with the purpose of analyzing and predict crime tends before it occur. COMPSTAT is allowing police agencies to adopt innovative technologies and problem-solving techniques while empowering traditional police organizational structures. Some participants questioned whether predictive policing was, in fact, a new model. Many police
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The CompStat Model According to University of Maryland, CompStat was established in 1994 as a data management model in N.Y.P.D (New York Police Department). Over the years the model has been credited with increasing the quality of life and decreasing the crime rates in New York City and other cities. Its success has seen other states across the U.S to widely embrace it (Weisburd and Mastrofski, 2003). In this light, this paper seeks to discourse constructs of policing and their performance, in
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dependency on random patrol techniques alone to fight crime are a thing of the past. Police departments across the United States have begun to use a strategy known as COMPSTAT (computer statistics). COMPSTAT is an extremely successful crime analysis and law enforcement management process developed by the New York Police Department. COMPSTAT uses Geographic Information Systems to map the locations of where crimes occur. The application of information technology has enabled countless police departments
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Predictive Policing By Jamia Yant April 13th, 2012 In order to effectively 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. The term predictive policing is the name given to “any policing strategy or tactic that develops and uses information and advanced analysis to inform forward-thinking
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Predictive Policing—Week 2 Assignment 1 Compare and contrast the application of information technology (IT) to optimize police departments’ performance to reduce crime versus random patrols of the streets. CompStat was design to reduce the rate of crime. The process incorporated in the CompStat features are divided into to features. The first look evaluates the crime and the effect it creates in the community. The second look examines the concerns surrounding the dynamics of the police department
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performance to reduce crime versus random patrols of the streets. Using information technology to fight crime by the police officers is becoming increasingly effective in apprehending the crime perpetrators. Predictive policing, or programs such as COMPSTAT, is taking data from disparate sources, analyzing them and then using the results to anticipate, prevent and respond more effectively to future crime. “The predictive vision moves law enforcement from focusing on what will happen and how to effectively
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