Introduction: This semester I chose the Atlanta Police Department as my agency to conduct research on. I chose this agency because I was interested in how the department was ran, what it is exactly that they do to help the city besides protect and serve, and how they are able to take great control over such a huge city as Atlanta, Georgia. Descriptive Narrative: In 1846 a small town known as Marthesville was renamed to Atlanta with only 9,000 citizens and 20 police officers. Over fifty years the city of
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Rahkon A. Ross Dr. Edwin Otto Strayer University CIS 500 Assignment #1: 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. Over the last decade, computer and telecommunications technologies have developed at a surprising rate. Increased computing power, advances in data transmission, smart and user-friendly graphic interfaces present law enforcement agencies
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1. Question 1-Reflection Season one set up two groups, the police and the drug-trade criminals. We, as an audience, saw how money affected both the politics of the trade and the politics of the justice system. We watched the hard-working but childish Detective McNulty and what he represents in the greater scheme of things. Season two introduces two new groups, the international criminals and the stevedores. Frank Sobotka is the head of the dockworkers' union. He knows jobs are dwindling, and
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Njaaga - 015118 Bryan Egessa - 09524 Moses Kihumba – 061619 Lemuel Mangla - 090716 Submitted: 2nd -October -2015 Research Topic The role that information systems can play in tackling security challenges in Kenya: Focus on digitizing the police occurrence books. Problem Statement Insecurity is amongst the top problems facing Kenya 50 years after independence. The widespread insecurity in developing countries can be attributed to poverty, corruption, unemployment and a big population
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Department Operations Police departments and other law enforcement agencies around the country have many roles and functions. The main roles of these agencies are patrolling, investigating crime, deterring crime, and enforcing the laws set forth to them by their local government. Depending on each department’s roles, drives how each operate on a daily basis. The breakdown of the average police agency across the United States is very similar in nature no matter where you go. Although each department
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basic mission for which the police exist is to prevent crime and disorder. The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent upon public approval of police actions. Police must secure the willing co-operation of the public in voluntary observance of the law to be able to secure and maintain the respect of the public. The degree of co-operation of the public that can be secured diminishes proportionately to the necessity of the use of physical force. Police seek and preserve public
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promoting greater racial harmony as the future grows nearer. Community policing also prevents the police from being misused and taken advantage of as they have been in the past (Trojanowicz, 1991). Community policing contributes to the developing and improving the racial development in obvious and subtle ways (Trojanowicz, 1991). Community policing changes the possible relationship between police and residents. Community policing can provide and develop a relationship of one with respect and truth
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African-American. In social terms, one of the most troubling problems with America’s war on drugs is that it appears to be motivated at least in part by racism. As Mason (2000) notes, under New Jersey’s Operation Pipeline drug interdiction program, for example, eighty percent of the motorists stopped by police were black and just thirteen percent were white. Sentencing laws also appear to be racist, for they punish minorities more. Getting caught with four-hundred grams of cocaine requires no mandatory
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has come a long way. Today security is global and faces many problems. The increase in terrorist attacks and sophisticated cyber crimes make expertise and confidentiality a must. Before now there were a lot of gaps left by public police. During the 1800’s the police departments were decentralized and many were corrupt, this created the need for private security. The American frontier saw an extreme shortage of law enforcement, as they had to resort to deputizing civilians and forming groups to
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and respond more effectively to future crime (Pearsall, n.d). In an attempt 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, first you need to examine 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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