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| Crime Analysis Cycle Steps |
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Data
Analysis
Information
Communication
Knowledge |
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| Who was the father of American Policing? |
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| August Vollmer (Berkley 1905-1932) |
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| What year and where was crime analysis first used? |
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| What types of crime analysis advances was Vollmer credited for? |
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Fingerprinting
Pin Mapping
Report Review
Patrol Districts based on crime violence |
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| Who defined crime analysis in 1963? |
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| What are the primary components of Wilson's crime analysis definition? |
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1. Study daily reports
2. Determine time, location, similarities
3. Crime pattern identification
4. Assist in planning Deployment |
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| LEAA was responsible for the growth of crime analysis from what dates? |
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| What does ICAP stand for? |
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| Intergrated Criminal Apprehension Program |
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| What are the eight things that contributed to the 1990s "GOLDEN AGE"? |
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1. POP
2. IACA (1990)
3. California Certification (1992)
4. DOJ Funding
5. New Technology
6. Compstat (1994)
7. Crime Mapping Research Center
8. Crime Mapping |
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| What are the Classifications of Crime Analysis? |
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Definition
1. Crime Analysts
2. Criminal Intelligence Analysts
3. Criminal Investigation Analysts |
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| Law enforcement Analysis? |
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The process, techniques, products that provide information support to the mission of the agency. |
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The systemic study of crime and disorder, police related issues, sociodemograhic, temporal data to assist in criminal apprhrehesion, reduction, prevention and evaluation of crime. |
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| Classifications of Crime Analysis |
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Definition
Tactical
Strategic
Administrative
Operational |
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The process of identifying crime patterns, analyzing patterns, notifying agency of patterns and help develop tactics to address patterns. It is action oriented, uses the who, what, why, where and when with forecasting as needed. |
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Focuses on long-term trends/chronic issues through periodic analysis and data collection. The main focus is on crime reduction not apprehension. |
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Positive increase in crime means crime... |
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| Increases, that are indicative of new problems. The problem requires qualitative date outside of police reports to research and developed an hypotheses then test through field research. Reduction is usually through lack of desirability or oppurtunity of targets. |
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| Negative increase in crime means crime |
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Definition
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| Neutral shift in crime means |
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| the characteristics are consistent in volume |
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| Qualitative data can consist of? |
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Definition
| Interviews, Surveys,Focus groups,Enviromental assessents, External research |
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| Administrative analysis consists of? |
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Definition
It is a broad category consisting of administrative and statisical reports, research or other projects not focused on short or long term crime reduction or elimination of a trend or pattern. |
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| Examples of administrative analysis |
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Definition
UCR
Grants
Deployment maps
Graphs/Charts to management
Demographics for an area |
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| Police operations analysis consists of? |
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| Study of department policies and practices to help in the allocation of personnel, money, and equipment. Relates to stategic analysis. |
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| Examples of Police Operations Analysis |
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Definition
Divide area into beats
How many officer to deploy per shift
Mandatory arrest policies
Justification for more Officers
Cosst of repsonse |
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Term
| The Crime Analysis Process |
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Definition
1. Data collection
2. Data Scanning/query
3. Data analysis
4. Informaiton dissemination
5. Response
6. Evaluation/Feedback |
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- Incidents
- Police Activity
- GIS
- Jursidiction
- Other agencies
- Persons/Businesses
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- Accuracy
- Reliability
- Completeness
- Timeliness
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| The two approaches to analysis |
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Definition
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| Individual pieces that form a pattern (Tactical) |
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| large amount of data broken down to find patterns (strategic) |
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Term
| The categories and of methods to analysis |
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Definition
- Filtration(remove)
- Categories (Classify)
- Aggregation(count)
- Comparison
- Correlation (Stats)
- Causality/Explaination
- Projection
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Term
| Strategies of crime prevention |
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Definition
- Increase effort - target hardening
- Increase risk -security
- Reduce reward - less value of target
- Reduce Provacation - create stress, fear
- Remove excuses - signage, education
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