POLS 4900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Compstat, Predictive Policing, Crime Mapping
5 May 2018
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-Productivity
-The targeted level of activity. To increase productivity means to obtain a greater
return for a given investment
-Relationship between resources used and the results obtained
-ROI: Return on investment
-Allocating resources to activities that give the highest return for each
dollar spent
-Measures
-Time at work
-One important measure of individual officer productivity is time
at work. When officers exhibit high sick time usage, the manager
must investigate its causes
-Causes usually include job dissatisfaction, poor working
conditions, etc
-Enforcement rates
-These rates are used to compare the productivity of their
subordinate officers
-Conviction rates
-A low conviction rate may indicate an officer is making poor
quality arrests or the officer needs skill development in the area
of investigation or court presentation
-Complaints
-This easure ealuates the pulis aeptae of polie atios
-When complaints are filed, supervisors must take immediate
action to investigate their validity
-CompStat
-First implemented in NYC to introduce accountability into police operations; now a
management tool where administrators hold commanders and units accountable for
what does or does not occur.
-Accurate and timely intelligence
-Effective tactics
-Rapid deployment of resources
-Relentless follow-up and assessment
-Compstat is not well defined
-Predictive policing and hotspots
-Officers focus on areas where crimes occur more often (hotspots)
-Police use crime analysis and mapping programs to identify hotspots and
provide a visual account of locations where crime is more likely to occur
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Document Summary
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