Exam 3: Effectiveness of Police in Reducing Crime and the Role of Crime Analysis

Which are individual events that arise from calls for service and are deemed more serious by laws and policies of the police department?

A set of related crime activities that occur over several months, seasons, or years.

Which is a category within immediate problems?

Drug activity on a particular corner occurring over the last five years is an example of a:

A homicide is an example of a

Crime analysis is most integral in broken windows policing.

A bar with repeated disturbances on the last three Fridays in a row is an example of a:

Which type of policing uses analysis of up-to-date computerized crime, arrest, and "quality of life" data is used to produce statistics and maps in strategy meetings to hold managers accountable?

Which can be individual people or groups of victims who share characteristics?

Which are groups of two or more crimes reported to or discovered by police that is treated as one unit of analysis because they share one or more key commonalities which make them notable and distinct?

Crime analysis plays a role in every type of policing.

Which is the type of long term activity that encompasses various locations, offenders, and victims and in most cases exists throughout an entire jurisdiction?

In which type of policing does crime analysis merely assist with patrol scheduling and deployment?