'Intelligence Led Policing or Policing Led Intelligence?': Integrating Volume Crime Analysis into Policing

Cope, Nina

doi:10.1093/bjc/44.2.188

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“…Not every law enforcement agency in the country is actively engaged in information sharing and intelligence practices (Carter and Phillips, 2014), thus a targeted sample is required. Virtually all intelligence research to date (post-9/11) has been conducted based on purposive samples where the researchers had an existing relationship with the intelligence personnel (see Carter and Phillips, 2014;Chermak et al, 2013;Cooney et al, 2011;Cope, 2004;Darroch and Mazerolle, 2013;Graphia-Joyal, 2010;Ratcliffe and Walden, 2010;Ratcliffe et al, 2014). This purposive sampling approach is even more pertinent with regard to fusion centers.…”

Section: Survey Of Intelligence Product Readersmentioning

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End-user perceptions of intelligence dissemination from a state fusion center

Lewandowski

Carter

2017

Secur J

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This research examines end-user perceptions of an intelligence product disseminated from a state fusion center in the northeast region of the United States. The current literature suffers from an empirical gap within the arena of contemporary law enforcement intelligence; largely due to the difficulty of obtaining data related to such practices. This research informs this gap and provides insights into local law enforcement intelligence sharing. Descriptive statistics and interview narratives are presented. Original survey data was collected from a sample of law enforcement agencies subscribed to the fusion center's intelligence listserv. Random interviews with survey respondents were also conducted and Nvivo software was utilized to develop qualitative constructs. Findings indicate the intelligence product is read daily and perceived to be moderately useful by recipients. End-users are primarily concerned with jurisdiction-specific and officer safety-related information. Upper-level administrators are the organizational lynchpins for funneling information to patrol officers.

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Section: Survey Of Intelligence Product Readersmentioning

confidence: 99%

End-user perceptions of intelligence dissemination from a state fusion center

Lewandowski

Carter

2017

Secur J

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“…and is stored in a semi-structured manner. A crime record may contain structured fields such as location, time, and type of crime, as well as unstructured textual fields such as modus operandi (abbreviated as MO) and intelligence notes [15].…”

Section: Comparative Case Analysismentioning

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“…Comparative Case Analysis (CCA) is a widely used technique for criminal intelligence analysis [15]. Given a collection of crime reports that contain both structured fields such as crime type and unstructured fields such as modus operandi, CCA aims at analyzing the commonalities and differences between them for predicting criminal activities, determining current, new or emerging problems and highlighting prevention, reduction or diversion opportunities [31].…”

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Spherical Similarity Explorer for Comparative Case Analysis

Zhang

Rooney

Nachmanson

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Comparative Case Analysis (CCA) is an important tool for criminal investigation and crime theory extraction. It analyzes the commonalities and differences between a collection of crime reports in order to understand crime patterns and identify abnormal cases. A big challenge of CCA is the data processing and exploration. Traditional manual approach can no longer cope with the increasing volume and complexity of the data. In this paper we introduce a novel visual analytics system, Spherical Similarity Explorer (SSE) that automates the data processing process and provides interactive visualizations to support the data exploration. We illustrate the use of the system with uses cases that involve real world application data and evaluate the system with criminal intelligence analysts.

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“…Firstly, reflecting Cope (2004), officers reported that they value knowledge that they believe will be useful for facilitating the enforcement of the criminal law, as this officer demonstrates: 'Yeah, anything that was of a criminal or possibility of being useful in a criminal investigation, anything like suspicious vehicles, things like that, anything suspicious like that I would put that in' (PC/08). Secondly, the notions of 'common sense,' 'knowing your patch' or 'experience' were strongly embedded in police officers accounts of how they come to understand neighbourhoods:…”

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Community, intelligence-led policing and crime control

Bullock

2013

Policing and Society

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This article examines the relationship between community policing, intelligence-led policing and crime control. Whilst community and intelligence-led policing have developed as distinctive reform movements within contemporary UK policing there have been calls for the two to interact in practice. In particularly, aspects of community policing are operationalized through the frameworks of intelligence-led policing. This article unpicks the structures and processes of (community) intelligence processes in detail. It focuses on the nature of information generated from community policing; how analytical products are constructed; and the nature of the officer tasking and briefing process. It is argued that community policing was conceived, at least in part, as an alternative to traditional reactive policing styles which coalesce around patrol, rapid response to incidents and enforcement of the criminal law. However, as community policing has evolved in practice it has become firmly embedded in conventional police-centric notions of 'efficiency', law enforcement and crime control.

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'Intelligence Led Policing or Policing Led Intelligence?': Integrating Volume Crime Analysis into Policing

Cited by 181 publications

References 12 publications

End-user perceptions of intelligence dissemination from a state fusion center

End-user perceptions of intelligence dissemination from a state fusion center

Spherical Similarity Explorer for Comparative Case Analysis

Community, intelligence-led policing and crime control

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