Exam 16: Administrative Crime Analysis: Crime Analysis for Accountability

For which kind of meeting should analysts NOT spend time creating products that show weekly or monthly counts of crime?

Which is a bar chart of each location, area, or offender, with crime counts for the most current six months compared to the same six months in the previous year?

Because crime analysts are conducting action-oriented products every day, there are only a handful of products that would be created specifically for a weekly accountability meeting and those produce focus on response, not on weekly crime or calls for service counts and statistics.

Identify and respond to patterns (short-term)is an example of a baseline.

"35% decrease" is an example of:

After crime reduction strategies are complete, an agency creates a "purpose and goals statement" for its crime reduction activities so know what they should do in the future.

Crime analysts should spend time creating products that show weekly or monthly counts of crime for weekly meetings.

Which type of accountability meeting examines long-term trends?

Every 12 months, a monthly meeting is used for evaluation-oriented accountability for the entire organization

Weekly comparison maps help police leaders visualize long-term changes in activity by geographic area.

Crime analysis plays a significant role in the crime reduction accountability process just as in what problem-solving process?

Which kind of products would be created to assess whether crime reduction strategies have been implemented successfully and have been cost effective?

According to the book, accountability refers:

Identify and address repeat offenders is an example of strategies.

Which of these is analysis directed to the needs of police agencies, its' government, and its' community?

The desire to decrease violent crime in a city by implementing particular strategies is an example of:

Which product is used to determine whether patterns themselves are clustering over time and becoming larger, long-term problem areas?

Once an agency's goals are formulated, the crime analyst develops their crime reduction strategies and the police department conducts tactical and strategic crime analysis to guide and support them.

Crime reduction accountability processes in a police organization center on creating realistic expectations, systematically reviewing the progress of crime reduction activities, documenting the work being done, and evaluating the success of crime reduction efforts at each level

A combination bar and line chart can be created for the most recent six months showing a selected crime by month and an average per month for the last five years