FOCUS Data-Driven Law Enforcement SUMMARY
Information is power. With the need to do more with less, we can- not do police work the old fashioned way. Here are some tips to move your department toward more effective data usage.
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DATA-DRIVEN oday, we cannot simply have a patrol
supervisor brief offi cers on the past few hours of activity and then have those personnel hit the fi eld and drive randomly around an assigned area. The combination of limited information and lack of di- rected resources results in minimal effectiveness.
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When crime is interrupted, it is a matter of random chance and we just can’t afford to keep rolling the dice, hoping to get lucky. Ask yourself when was the last time your patrol offi cers actually interrupted a serious crime in progress as a result of their own observations while on ran- dom patrol. The answer will probably be either “Never” or “I remember once…”
Effective policing means that we must successfully ‘con- nect the dots’ of criminal justice data. The concept of trying to use data to drive policing decisions really isn’t new. You can fi nd examples of police using crime pin maps going back almost 100 years. Today’s ability to use powerful com- puterized systems to gather and analyze information means we have the potential to connect seemingly unrelated data points and identify potential crime series, provide investi-
14 LAW and ORDER I March 2016
HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR INFORMATION SOURCES By Dale Stockton
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