The Organizational and Practical Considerations of Starting a Crime Analysis Unit: A Case Study of a Midwestern Police Department

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colby Dolly ◽  
Briana Shawver
Keyword(s):  
Police Department ◽  
Crime Analysis

Multicultural Communication Training for Law Enforcement Officers: A Case Study

2000 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 234-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myrna M. Cornett-DeVito ◽  
Edward L. McGlone
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Multicultural Training ◽  
Communication Training ◽  
Training Methods ◽  
Training Outcomes ◽  
Interactive Training ◽  
Field Notes

This exploratory case study focused on multicultural communication training within the community policing context. Little research has addressed what constitutes effective content and delivery of multicultural training for law enforcement officers. Brislin and Yoshida's four-component multicultural plan was combined with limited law enforcement-related multicultural training literature to design a training program for a small city's police department. Two 4-hour training sessions were conducted by one of the investigators using a culture-general content approach and selected training methods to determine their usefulness for improving officers' multi-cultural competencies. The case included the training sessions together with pre-and posttraining activities over a period of approximately 3 months. Data were collected with selected test instruments and also from the field notes taken during the case activities. The results suggest that the culture-general model and interactive training methods and trainer qualifications may be key to yielding positive training outcomes.

From Beats to Tracts

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-106
Author(s):  
Gang Gong
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Crime Analysis ◽  
Crime Statistics ◽  
Houston Police Department ◽  
Interpolation Technique ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Socioeconomic Data ◽  
Geographical Space ◽  
The U.S

In this article, the author addresses the spatial incompatibility between different types of data that is commonly faced in crime analysis research. Socioeconomic variables have been proved valuable in explaining crime behaviors and in predicting crime activities. However, socioeconomic data and crime statistics are usually collected and aggregated at different spatial zonations of geographical space, making the integration and analysis of these data difficult. Simple areal weighting interpolation technique, although frequently employed, often leads to unsatisfactory results due to the fact that most types of crime do not distributed evenly across space. Using 2007 burglary crime in Houston, Texas, as an example, the author illustrates a remote sensing approach to interpolating crime statistics from police beat enumeration district used by Houston Police Department to census tract defined by the U.S. Bureau of the Census.

A review of Crime Analysis and Visualization. Case study: Maryland State, USA

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sahar Bayoumi ◽  
Sarah AlDakhil ◽  
Eman AlNakhilan ◽  
Ebtehal Al Taleb ◽  
Hana AlShabib
Keyword(s):  
Crime Analysis

scholarly journals Is crime analysis at the heart of policing practice? A case study

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 768-786 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jyoti Belur ◽  
Shane Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Crime Analysis

When Law and Order Works: Boston's Innovative Approach to the Problem of Racial Violence

1986 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-223 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Police Department ◽  
The United States ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Innovative Approach ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Innovative Strategies ◽  
Racial Incidents

Racial and ethnic violence continues to be a major problem in the United States. Boston, which experienced hightened racial turmoil since its desegregation process, presents an excellent case study of a police department that faced the problem in a straightforward manner. Traditional methods of classifying and investigating racial incidents were viewed as ineffective. The Boston Police Department developed an innovative approach to the handling of racially motivated crime, which involved implementing a departmentwide policy and creating a specialized police unit. This unit was highly successful in uncovering incidents that under traditional reporting methods appeared commonplace. Upon further examination, these incidents, taken together, indicated persistent and compelling patterns of racial animus. The uncovering of these incidents, the subsequent relabeling of them into “community disorders,” and the development of innovative strategies are described. Policy implications and recommendations are presented. Critics may question the allocation of police resources to a problem that on the surface may appear minor. However, racial violence viewed in the aggregate form has dramatic impact on the quality of life for the victim. A police department that recognizes the significance of this problem is making an important statement about the kind of society we are and what we as a nation stand for.

A Case Study of Family Violence During COVID-19 in San Antonio

2021 ◽  
pp. 001112872110647
Author(s):  
Wanda E. Leal ◽  
Alex R. Piquero ◽  
Justin Kurland ◽  
Nicole Leeper Piquero ◽  
Elizabeth L. Gloyd
Keyword(s):  
Family Violence ◽  
San Antonio ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Calls For Service ◽  
Government Response ◽  
Optimized Model ◽  
Welfare Agencies

The current study investigates the effects of coronavirus restrictions on family violence in the seventh largest city in the country, San Antonio, Texas. Two streams of data were used to evaluate the potential change between what occurred during the lockdown period versus what would have been expected, including the COVID-19 Government Response Stringency Index and police calls for service from the San Antonio Police Department. The methodological approach used takes advantage of feature engineering, various machine learning time series forecasting techniques commonly leveraged in financial technical analysis, as well as cross-validation for optimized model selection. These techniques have not been considered in previous domestic or family violence-related research. During the lockdown period in San Antonio, we observed a larger than expected increase in calls to police for family violence incidents. Specifically, an increase of over fourteen percent of police calls for family incidents was observed. The findings of the current study suggest that social service and social welfare agencies consider and plan for how future pandemics or other major disasters will affect the incidence of family violence and take appropriate steps now to bolster resources and scale up for the future.

Agency, Structure, and Explanation in Social History: The Case of the Foundling Home on Kephallenia, Greece, during the 1830s

1991 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-508
Author(s):  
Thomas W. Gallant
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Statistical Analyses ◽  
Historical Explanation ◽  
European Context ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Epistemological Basis

There has developed recently a body of Self-reflexive literature on the methodologies and epistemological bases of social history (e.g., Zunz 1985; Lloyd 1988; Stearns 1988). Some critics have argued for a greater synthesis between social history and politics (Fox-Genovese and Genovese 1976; Eley and Nield 1980; Hochstadt 1982; Rabb 1981); others have focused more on the mode of social-historical disquisition (Stone 1979); still others have placed especial emphasis on the epistemological basis of historical explanation (Lloyd 1988; Giddens 1978; Abrams 1982). Much of the literature is programmatic. Very few of these works provide concrete examples of how their approaches can be applied. The primary purpose of this article is to furnish a case study that highlights the drawbacks to one type of social history while exemplifying the merits of another. In particular, I want to focus on the nature of the relationship between structure and human agency in social-historical explanation, using as my basis the foundling home established by the British Colonial Office on Kephallenia in 1824. Utilizing the data contained in the foundling register kept by the Greek Police Department at Argostoli over the years 1830 to 1834, I conduct statistical analyses similar to those performed by social historians working on comparable institutions elsewhere and thus place the Kephallenian case into a comparative European context.

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