Cohesion among neighborhood residents combined with shared expectations for informal social control of public space.
What is collective efficacy?
A type of policing that attempts to address specific problems that affect the quality of life of residents in a community.
What is problem-oriented policing?
A management process that involves the analysis of data to identify problems and the assignment of responsibility to police personnel for the resolution of those problems.
What is Compstat?
Analysis of crime data that focuses on where crimes occur.
What is geospatial crime analysis?
Any initiative on the part of a police department to incorporate technology into police operations with the goal of developing information that can be used to reduce crime.
What is smart policing?
An orientation to policing that focuses on building relationships with citizens in order to achieve crime control and other outcomes such as citizen satisfaction.
What is community policing?
Citizens’ perceptions of police fairness in contacts with officers.
What is procedural justice?
What is the full name of "Compstat"?
Computer Statistics
An approach to policing that involves the collection and analysis of information on likely offenders and their methods of operation.
What is intelligence-led policing?
Technologies capable of identifying a person by measuring a feature of a person’s unique physical characteristics.
What are biometrics?
An office created by the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to distribute funds to departments for the development and fostering of community policing efforts.
What is Community Oriented Policing Services (COPs)?
A method of problem solving that involves identifying a problem, researching what is known about the problem, developing solutions to the problem, and then evaluating the success of the solution.
What is the SARA model?
Maps that display where various crimes have occurred in a particular jurisdiction over a particular period of time.
What are crime maps?
The largest, most well-known crime information network system in the country.
What is the National Crime Information Center (NCIC)?
A system of cameras that transmit their signals to a restricted set of monitors.
What is Closed Circuit Television (CCTV)?
Bureaus created to improve community-police relations through public relations activities.
What are community relations bureaus?
What does the acronym "SARA" (i.e., the SARA model) stands for?
scanning, analysis, response, and assessment
Policing that occurs when leaders collect and analyze departmental data to make informed decisions about how their departments should best operate, particularly with regard to policies and strategies.
What is data-driven policing?
In this type of analysis, the focus is on identifying and targeting offenders and potential offenders.
What is person-focused analysis?
Determining the physical characteristics of an individual based on a DNA profile.
What is DNA intelligence or phenotyping?
The belief the police ought to be allowed to exercise their authority to maintain social order, manage conflicts, and solve problems in their communities.
Policing strategy that involved assigning small teams of patrol officers, investigators, and supervisors to neighborhoods on a long-term basis in order to increase the exchange of information and improve cooperation.
What is team policing?
Policing that involves the use of research findings to inform policies and strategies.
What is evidence-based policing?
Policing strategy that uses data to try to predict and prevent crime.
What is predictive policing?
Systems whereby a facial image can be captured on camera and compared to digital images stored in a reference database.
What is facial recognition systems?