• The potential effects of information technology (IT) systems on police productivity will be driven, in part, by the match between the technology and police activities. In modern policing, how information is used for reactive response to incidents is significantly different from proactive and community-policing activities, so we expect the effects of IT to be quite different. The authors devel...

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In 1998, Dorset Police undertook a six month pilot project in problem oriented policing (POP). The Charminster Beat Project was the result. Contingent on the results of the project the force would consider implementing problem solving across the force area. Comparatively, crime on the Charminster Beat, across all categories, was disproportionately high. The evidence of a survey in the area coul...

Zusammenfassung Mit zunehmender Digitalisierung extendieren insbesondere die qualitativen und quantitativen Kriterien der polizeilichen Arbeit. Mathematische Algorithmen, wie Predictive Policing, halten immer mehr Einzug. Retrospektiv werden dabei eine effektivere effizientere Ausdifferenzierung Risikogebiete realisiert. Bei prädiktiven Prognose mittels mathematischer Algorithmen Wahrscheinlich...

In the 1990s, the New York City Police Department instituted a policy of arresting individuals for less serious offenses that impinge on the city's quality of life (QOL). Critics contend that QOL policing widened the net for arrest, especially among minorities. Alternatively, QOL policing could have created additional opportunities for arresting individuals from the same populations that tend t...

Predictive policing systems are increasingly used to determine how to allocate police across a city in order to best prevent crime. Observed crime data (arrest counts) are used to update the model, and the process is repeated. Such systems have been shown susceptible to runaway feedback loops, where police are repeatedly sent back to the same neighborhoods regardless of the true crime rate. In ...

A number of external and internal forces are influencing policing efforts to service the community. These external forces include public expectations for traditional services, and the State government’s push towards new public management practices. Internal forces include legacy management practices and inappropriate asset holdings. While there have been a plethora of companies from the private...

The widespread adoption of problem-oriented policing requires a dramatic and fundamental change in both the organizational focus of the police and the manner in which day to day policing is performed. The focus of this article is on the factors that have limited the implementation of problem-oriented policing. These are partitioned into two groups; those inhibiting the problem orientation of th...

GIS technology is credited with substantially improving police crime analysis and related resource allocation. Although GIS has been said to be an efficient and effective technology in policing, limited empirical assessment has been conducted. An examination of functions and a review of the literature suggests four major applications of GIS in policing: computerized crime mapping/crime analysis...