Exam 13: Technology Is Moving Faster and Faster As Is Its Influence on Police Operations

While social media has exploded throughout society, police are yet to make use of this technology.

If the commercial model holds true in the law enforcement world, then it is reasonable to expect that the largest agencies might be attracted to the construction of their own private cloud, while smaller agencies are more likely to eventually embrace the public cloud model unless coalitions of agencies combine to create their own private or community clouds.

A live video feed requires many times more bandwidth than the exchange of data.

Ray Kurzweil suggests that we may see:

There exists a very distinct linkage between innovations in technology and innovations in police operations.

The policing where resources are assigned to patrol or monitor the locations where the highest number of serious crimes occur is known as:

In the PERF study of technology in policing conducted in 2012, % of police agencies claimed that they were already streaming video from fixed surveillance cameras to police vehicles, and _% of the responding agencies planned to do so within the next 5 years.

There is often an assumption that cloud computing is something for large agencies to pursue.

In the wake of disappearing police departments and staff reductions, police agencies throughout the country are much more receptive to sharing resources, finding ways to economize, and collaborate in a way that everyone is "better off for it."

Social media presents challenges to law enforcement such as:

Police departments and law enforcement in general has been slow to migrate to the use of cloud computing for things other than email and other administrative functions.

Social media has become extremely popular with the criminal element of our society. This element has used social media to:

Atlanta, Georgia police are hoping to monitor 762 cameras integrating police and private security camera locations.

Data recovery and redundancy is critical to police agencies to achieve redundancy agencies:

Geographic information systems (GIS), are available today in the public cloud and can be used in support of mission critical functions such as:

Braga and Weisburd are best known for

At a recent conference, several police chiefs reported on the fact that they had abolished the beat concept in favor of allocating resources to probable locations as a function of the time of day.

According to the Police Executive Research Forum, the financial crisis that the nation has experienced since 2007 has resulted in the reduction of about of the nation's police officers.

In a study by the IJIS Institute in 2012, of the police executives responding express concerns about the risks of cloud computing and articulated the specifics that made them apprehensive.

Spatial Analysis has not taken hold in the criminal justice environment but may do so in the future.