Assignment:
Explain why a police department would use any of these information technology systems for its community policing program.
- The FBI's Uniform Crime Report database
- Bureau of Statistics databases
- COMPSTAT
- National Crime Victimization Survey database
- Computer-Aided Dispatch
- Global Justice Information Network
- Crime mapping
- Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS)
- Live Scan
- Communications technologies
How are the selected technologies used by law enforcement agencies within a community policing program? Explain in detail.
Address the following:
- What significant benefits have the technologies selected by the group had on law enforcement operations, specifically on community-oriented policing? Explain.
- What drawbacks do the technologies selected by the group have on law enforcement operations? Explain in detail.
- What specific problems do these technologies directly address? Explain.