Predictive Policing

Predictive Policing

Assignment 1

By:

Salvador Guevara

To:

Dr. Lila Rajabion

Professor:

CIS 500: Information System for Decision Making

January, 2013

PREDICTIVE POLICING

1. Compare and contrast the application of Information Technology (IT) to optimize police departments’ performance to reduce crime versus random patrols of the streets.

It is a very interesting topic knowing how Police Departments had being fighting crime and street violence in many cities throughout the United States contrary to the new trend, which provide a vivid and fruitful example in how Information Technology (IT) can maximize productivity in terms of reducing crime and providing peace and prosperity to neighborhoods regardless of the limited and scarce resources available in the 21th Century. Police departments nationwide had been patrolling streets in every city in efforts to maintain public safety. By implementing traditional policing methods in placed for many years, most of this strategic methods implied human interaction and common sense as going back to crime affected areas by reviewing hand written police reports provided by officers involved on previous violent situations on affected areas of such cities in efforts to maintain public order and prevent future crimes as described by (Pearsall, B., May, 2010)

Predictive policing however is a computer generated report system, an IT derivative in innovation, a rather new police fighting crime program. In this computer program, data is fed into the system whereby the implementation of information technology and the utilization of information system (IS) combined, producing systematic police alert reports predicting possible arising issues involving future crimes. Such computer program had equipped police departments on a number of cities with the latest tools to fight crime from; homes burglaries, automobiles theft and other plight affecting public safety. In the old...