HPR 412 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Urban Riots, Internal Communications, Larceny
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Zmcilwain, "kansas city burning" and "the man"s best friend . Blacks flooded to kansas in the 60s and created east kansas city, a ghetto of sorts *nyt. Police chief kelley authorized use of force after a soft drink hit the ground. I mean, they did start a riot . Fingerprint id, resource allocation, crime analysis, dispatch, election returns. Kansas city assembled their own team - patrolmen programmers. Gass" model - not all crimes created equal. Algorithm weighed crimes - scale of 1-4. 4 (index crimes) - homicide, burglary, larceny, auto theft, assault, rape, etc. Index files use numbers to id records within a system that link to an individual"s name, home, vehicles, businesses, etc. Solution to the threat posed by blacks in kansas city. Used race in the strategic factor in profiling suspects. They reported how long it took for officers to arrive on scene after dispatch.
