Exam 10: History and Types of Crime Analysis

The most widely recognized element of CompStat is its regularly occurring meetings where police department executives and officers discuss and analyze crime problems

CompStat is a performance management system that is used to reduce crime and achieve ______________.

The NIJ's Crime Mapping Research Center (CMRC) is now called: _______.

The acronym SARA has to do with problem-oriented policing

Because of the influence of CompStat, ______________have become almost every police department's bottom line; ______________are the best indicator of how the police are doing precinct by precinct and citywide.

With the advent of CompStat in New York City, from 1993 to 1998 homicides, burglaries and robberies ______________.

Between 1973 and 1977, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) published a series of manuals on crime analysis

The Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety Program (MAPS) supports research that helps agencies use ______________.

Goldstein's model for problem-oriented policing was expanded in 1987 by John E. Eck and William Spelman into the _______.

Some police departments use CompStat to assess overtime, budgets, use of force, citizen complaints and ______________.

Tactical crime analysis describes the daily identification and analysis of ______________.

Tactical crime analysis is yearly identification and analysis of emerging or existing crime patterns

The IACA has developed a Certified Law Enforcement Analyst (CLEA) credential that has been available since 2005

With any type of cross-training for crime analysts who are assigned to work in tactical, real-time situations, the goal is to create a hybrid form of crime analysis that ______________.

Problem-oriented policing is a policing strategy that involves the identification and analysis of specific crime and disorder problems in order to ______________ .

Since 2005, the IACA has offered a ______________.

Under the direction of NYPD deputy commissioner Jack Maple, the NYPD began to make use of their own crime statistics and to track indicators of problems, such as the locations of _______.

The CompStat program began in the NYPD in 1994 and was created by ______________.

The International Association of Crime Analysts (IACA) was founded in ______________ .

In order to be a valuable member of a crisis management team, a tactical analyst needs to have an understanding and working knowledge of _______.