Topic: Predictive Policing Name: Zainab Sesay Course ID: CIS 500 Instructor: Zeehasham Rasheed Date: 04/0/2014 ABSTRACT Predictive Policing is the act of reducing crime using technology. It is the act of analyzing past data and anticipate the result in the response to future crime. All over the world and in the United States of America in particular, the law enforcement faced problems in the budgets slashed to implement advanced technology towards the increasing crime rate. In recent
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optimize police departments’ performance to reduce crime versus random patrols of the streets. 2. Describe how COMPSTAT, as an information system (IS), implements the four (4) basic IS functions: 1. Input 2. Processing 3. Output 4. Feedback 3. Determine how information systems have allowed police departments that implement tools such as COMPSTAT to respond to crime faster. 4. Apply the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats analysis (SWOT
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com/CIS-500-Assignment-1-Predictive-Policing-CIS5001.htm In 1994, the New York City Police Department adopted a law enforcement crime fighting strategy known as COMPSTAT (COMPuter STATistics). COMPSTAT uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to map the locations of where crimes occur, identify “hotspots”, and map problem areas. COMPSTAT has amassed a wealth of historical crime data. Mathematicians have designed and developed algorithms that run against the historical data to predict future crimes
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Changing Face of Police Management For law enforcement agencies to succeed its current leadership style and practices must change to keep up with these progressive times. The old authoritarian style of leadership of conformity and unyielding compliance will no longer work today. One of the reasons for law enforcement agencies to prepare now rather later is because the face of law enforcement is evolving. As veteran officers retire a new generation of police officers are being hired and are currently
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HistoryMain article: History of criminal justice The modern criminal justice system has evolved since ancient times, with new forms of punishment, added rights for offenders and victims, and policing reforms. These developments have reflected changing customs, political ideals, and economic conditions. In ancient times through the Middle Ages, exile was a common form of punishment. During the Middle Ages, payment to the victim (or the victim's family), known as wergild, was another common punishment
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Predictive Policing Luis D. Colon Strayer University Predictive Policing seems to be an alternative to many agencies unable to access the necessary resources needed to fight crimes. Wal-Mart and Amazon have taken advantage of the benefits of focusing on what will happen next rather than the events in the past. I call it “focused planning”. After reading how many companies have expressed concerns of the high crime activity in their zones it
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programs such as CompStat (a management data system for police departments) have led to a “numbers driven “mentality for officers in New York and other metropolitan areas. Instead of upholding honorable values, programs such as CompStat have led to officers manipulating crime statistics, and changing complaints for crimes in several categories. In fact, officers have conducted over half a million forcible stops, mostly of innocent people to fulfill the statistics that CompStat requires (Rashbaum
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The Impact of Technology on Law Enforcement and Organized Crime Impact of Technology on Law Enforcement and Organized Crime Organized crime involves the illicit flow of goods and services in one direction and the flow of the profits of crime in the other. Technology has created much change in the way organized crime groups conduct operations. It has also caused law enforcement organizations to evolve and use a variety of techniques and methods to effectively combat organized crime groups. In order
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police enforcement agency of future are: computer aided dispatch (CAD), information and database technology, mobile computing and record management system” (Walker & Katz, 2010). Moreover, the significant innovation towards police criminal fighting is COMPSTAT which facilitates with accurate and timely facts on disorder and crime. Another technology is Early Intervention systems that contain computerized records and performance data of every officer. Likewise, there is a significant approach to identify
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qualified to talk about this topic. That is what he did when he used Bill Bratton in the article. Bill Bratton was the New York City Police commissioner at the time when he wanted to install a plan to lower crime in New York City. That plan was called CompStat, which is a system “that ran statistics and analyzed district crime reports, arrest records, and other police data to follow crime trends and target criminal hot spots” (338). The system seemed very effective after just one year of using because
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