Exam 14: Evidence-Based and Intelligence-Led Policing

Crime analysis can only lead to a crime reduction when combined with effective police strategies.

Geospatial crime analysis can provide a basis for person-based crime prevention.

Examples of funded Strategies for Police Innovation projects have included efforts to target prescription drug abuse, homicide, domestic violence, neighborhood disorder, gangs, and gun violence.

Define COMPSTAT and identify its two core components.

Discuss the balance between the right to know and the right to privacy for citizens, when it comes to intelligence-led policing and geospatial crime analysis

When data being analyzed relate to who is involved in crimes, namely victims and offenders, it is often called crime intelligence analysis.

Identify geographical information systems and explain their benefit to police.

______ electronically store information such as crime reports, arrest reports, traffic citations, and/or other police-citizen contacts

Geospatial crime analysis ______.

Beside data, on what other basis could policy decisions be made?

This data-driven management model was introduced in 1994 by Police Commissioner William Bratton in the New York City Police Department.

Compare and contrast crime intelligence analysis and geospatial crime analysis.

One of the first examples of data-driven policing involved the ______.

Explain how a problem-oriented approach could increase the effectiveness of COMPSTAT.

Evidence-based policing occurs when officers effectively secure crime scenes and use forensic techniques to identify evidence of a crime for use in court.

The two core components of COMPSTAT are ______.

Basing policy decisions on the wishes of the police chief is an example of a policy decision based on ______.

Ideally, crime analysts should be able to provide answers to officers' and commanders' questions about crime patterns and trends.

When data being analyzed relate to who is involved in crimes, namely victims and offenders, it is often called ______.

Predatory street crime is distributed evenly across time, place, and people.