Crime mapping

In Makarechi’s article “What the Data Really Says About Police and Racial Bias.” he states that although there is not a ton of competent data of fatal police shootings, there is still a wealth of academic research, official and media investigations, and court rulings on the specific topic of race and police officers. The Hive had collected 18 statistics of the such to reveal the evidence we do have. All together, the research gives an idea of a nation where a person’s race can affect the…

theories of criminality gave me an understanding of what leads individual’s to commit a crime. Theories of the causes of crime is a growing body of evidence about the factors that place people at risk of criminal offending. Biological, sociological, and psychological theories focus on anatomical, physiological or genetic abnormalities and their contributions to crime. “Biological theories about causes of crime focus on the idea that the physical body, though inherited genes, evolutionary…

Cordoning off the scene Cordoning off the crime is very essential because it notifies other people that they are strictly restricted from entering the crime scene. There are type of cordons; Inner cordon and outer cordon. Inner cordon is the place where the main evidence is present. Whereas, outer cordon notifies people that it is not safe to go beyond this point. It also tells them to stay away from the location. Only the police officer, fire brigade or crime scene officer has authority to go…

1829 influenced by the England’s policing style that took form in both informal and communal (Potter, 2013). Better yet they were known as either the “watch” or the “big stick” in which community volunteers serve the duty of watching the streets for crime prevention (Potter, 2013). Eventually Sir Robert Peel has made debut of this and established the Metropolitan Act 1829 by entitling those a professionalism out of it and organized a policing force to serve and protect (Potter, 2013). For…

Language is something we all can relate to, and sometimes obstacles and boundaries come in not being able to communicate well in the environment that we are in. One question is can language be racialized. Our everyday language is definitely racialized in three distinct ways. The first way our language is racialized is through our opportunities a person of my color can go out to get a job, but they may not get it because of the color of their skin. Where someone with the same skill set,but the…

statistics”. It is a multi-faceted system for managing police operations. Comstat is an innovative business management process, system, and strategic methodology used to achieve an organization and goals. In a police organization, Comstat is a crime control process manifested in recurring meetings, usually one per week, during which the agency’s performance indicators are critically reviewed for improvement. The Comstat concept has been used widely in the law enforcement arena in many…

Technological Advances through Law Enforcement History: Good or Bad? Anyone who has turned on a television or has seen a police officer in his cruiser with a radar gun knows that there have been technological advances in law enforcement. But law enforcement technology has a longer history than many outside the industry realize. This paper will serve to give a brief history of the technologies that have changed the nature of policing, and attempt to determine whether those technologies helped or…

technological advancements include a new software called data mining which identifies crime patterns and links them to suspects, Enclosed Space Detection Systems (ESDS) which can determine if there’s a person in the trunk of a vehicle, thermal imagers, high-definition surveys (HDS) which creates a virtual crime scene and allows the investigators to see every detail, Crime mapping which locates the hot spots of crime, Biometrics which recognizes a person based on psychological or behavioral…

Pull the weed at the top and the weed will come back, but get down to the root and the weed will cease to exist. This is why I valued Criminal Behavior because if we can surmise that crime is the result of this macro or micro level theory then we can begin to adjust the way we police and ultimately help the offender. When I originally entered into the criminal justice system I figured that I would end up being an officer of some kind…

understanding its definition is crucial. Criminal profiling refers to the procedure of categorizing personality mannerisms, behavior inclinations, and demographic variables of a criminal basing on the characteristics of the crime (Bartol & Bartol, 2012). It consists of the actions of a given crime as explained by an eyewitness, existence of physical evidence, or a confession…