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    Crime Mapping Assignment

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    the past decade, there has been an uprising trend of the amount of crime being committed .The types of crimes that are occurring daily range from serious crimes like murders, homicides, drugs, to lower offenses like traffic violations etc. As we know, crimes are not so easy to solve or to monitor without some sort of tracking system. Today, police departments within every civilization across the globe handle some sort of gathered data imputed with crime happenings in their area. Some may wonder and ask “how is the data is storage is storage and secured?” Let’s recall the back to the early 1800’s were push-pin maps were utilized by policing and agencies to identify crime patterns. There were several limitations with utilizing the push-pin methods such as adding characteristics of the crimes and losing crime data at the time of updates. The purpose of this assignment is to briefly discuss crime mapping in the new world of IT( Information Technology). Crime mapping is used by analysts in law enforcement agencies to map, visualize, and analyze crime incident patterns. By doing so, I will then utilize two different sources “Prospective of Hot Spotting” and “The Benefit and Cost of Information Technology Innovation”. My strategies will be to examine each source by re-writing them into my own words and critiquing the author’s articles. Prospective Hot Spotting: The purpose of the article was to develop a mapping procedure that seeks to produce prospective “Hot Spot Maps”. Hot…

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    Essay On Crime Mapping

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    Crime mapping software helps law enforcement researchers discover hidden opportunities to improve public safety. The technology produces fact-based reports, providing comprehensive overviews of the people and places involved in criminal activity. Police departments around the country are incorporating the technology into their crime fighting toolkits to separate fact from opinion, reduce illegal activity and increase departmental efficiency. Making Sense out of Big Data Crime Statistics Law…

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    Police Hot Spots Essay

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    record of all of the hot spots in that area. Having an established analysis of the local high crime activities going on in the community will benefit everyone. This electronic book stored with a wide range of data collected from the police or sheriff’s department on different parts of the geographical region. The East Palo Alto police department map of crime is defined, includes a review of the areas where crime is either higher or lower than others, explore factors and the different types of…

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    social learning theory, Edwin Sutherland’s differential association is the core learning theory when understanding social learning theory. Edwin Sutherland’s differential association theory states that criminal behavior is learned in interaction with other persons in a process of communication that takes place primarily in intimate personal groups that include crime motives, rationalizations, and attitudes (d.umn). Differential association may also vary in frequency, duration, priority, and…

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    In his chapter, “Doing the Right Thing,” in the book, Justice, Michael Sandel focuses on the issue of morality and how does one put a price on the life or wound of another in a passage that appears in a section called, “Afghan Goatherds.” Sandel opens the passage by saying “Consider now an actual moral dilemma, similar in some ways to the fanciful tale of the runaway trolley, but complicated by the uncertainty of how things will turn out.” Next, he indicates that a team of Navy SEALs was on a…

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    What would my employees think? Am I a pushover? Will more complaints occur? In order to avoid these questions and any resulting regret the decision was made based on the regret theory (Plous, 1993 p.101). 3. Compare and contrast your understanding of judgment and/or decision making using these three different theoretical approaches. My understanding of the judgment was based on the surrounding context. The baseline for the behavior of the employee was determined by a reference point,…

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    Rational Decision Model

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    The Decision-Making Process using the Rational Decision Model Within the decision making process, there are five steps that was used in making a decision. Relevant to my circumstance, the fourth step, the lack of participation error was the missed step in this case. In the Rational Decision Model there is a fourth step that says to implement the preferred course of action. This stage is where the actions or in this case decision are made. While I was making the decision to post the content I…

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    (a) Learning:- Learning scholars don 't totally concede to how learning happens, and in this way it has been hard to concoct a general meaning of learning. From a mental viewpoint, learning alludes to a moderately changeless change in conduct which accompanies experience From the promoting perspective, purchaser learning is the methodology by which persons get the buy and utilization information and experience they apply to future related conduct Individuals don 't generally learn by immediate…

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    Decision Making Speech Decisions, decisions, decisions. These things are everywhere. There have been well over a thousand people’s individual decisions that have gone into making this keynote happen. Some of these decisions were small… like the decision NOT to type your keynote pamphlets in Comic Sans. Other decisions were quite a bit larger, like the decision to hold this conference here in this beautiful venue. All of you made the decision to attend today (or your boss made the decision to…

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    strongly about, while at the same time, I do respect men equally. Being a feminist is a quality about myself that I recognize influences that I will be as a counselor. I will have to be careful to not impose these views onto my students. Additionally, when making an ethically difficult problem, will have to be aware that these views are not clouding my ability to make an appropriate decision. Moreover, I am a part of a blended family. I am engaged to man with two daughters from a previous…

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