Police crime analysis: A Survey of us police departments with 100 or more sworn personnel

O'Shea, Timothy C.; Nicholls, Keith W.

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“…It may be that agencies produce different types of crime analysis or may use crime analysis for different purposes than what were included in our survey. Yet, other research has made similar conclusions (Cope, 2004;Cordner and Biebel, 2005;O'Shea and Nicholls, 2003). But if this is the case, future 515 National survey of law enforcement agencies research might include more crime analysis items or include open-ended questions for patrol commanders to describe the crime analysis they do use.…”

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“…One of challenges in the field of crime analysis is getting officers to use the results (Cope, 2004;Cordner and Biebel, 2005;O'Shea and Nicholls, 2003). That is, research has found that difficulties exist regarding the applicability and use of analytical products (Boba and Crank, 2008;Cope, 2004;Cordner and Biebel, 2005;O'Shea and Nicholls, 2003).…”

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The integration of crime analysis into police patrol work

Santos

Taylor

2014

Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies &Amp; Management

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Access to this document was granted through an Emerald subscription provided by emerald-srm:409465 [] For AuthorsIf you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this paper is to examine national survey data of police agencies in the USA to explore the current state of crime analysis integration to patrol crime reduction work. Design/methodology/approach -The data examined in this paper are from a national quantitative survey which sought to understand how crime analysis results are used by officers as well as higher ranking personnel in the patrol division and what types of strategies are implemented using crime analysis. Findings -The findings show that the routine use of crime analysis is not well integrated. Despite the low integration, however, some differences were found. Management uses crime analysis the most overall, but officers and first-line supervisors use tactical crime analysis more routinely than management, where management personnel use evaluation most routinely. Tactical crime analysis is used most often for directed patrol, strategic for both directed patrol and general information, and evaluation for both general information and crime prevention. Analysis of using analysis proactively shows that agencies use tactical crime analysis most proactively, followed by the strategic crime analysis, then evaluation.Research limitations/implications -The study relies on self-report surveys, so the results may suffer from some of the general limitations of self-reports. Also, the study resulted in a lower response rate than surveys of police agencies typically achieve. Although responding and non-responding agencies were comparable in terms of population size, number of officers, and region of the country, The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at the response rate was about 55 percent. However, it is a possibility based on the analysis results that non-responses may reflect a disinterest in the topic or the lack of integration of crime analysis. Originality/value -This is the first national survey that focussed specifically on crime analysis integration in patrol work for crime reduction. The value of the results presented here are in the description of the curr...

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The integration of crime analysis into police patrol work

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2014

Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies &Amp; Management

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“…The supervisorleadership -communication link is supported by the fact that O'Shea and Nicholls [30] argue that policing in America conforms to the bureaucratic, hierarchical model in which policies are formed at the executive level and are communicated as standard operating procedures to subordinates.…”

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Integrity, culture, and scale: an empirical test of the big bad police agency

Marché

2009

Crime Law Soc Change

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Building on Klockars et. al. (2000) analysis of survey data on police agency integrity, this analysis develops an economic model of police corruption within police agencies. Empirical estimates of the economic model are consistent with Klockars et. al. (2000) in that there is no evidence to support the traditional theory that police agency corruption is attributable to the "individual bad-apple." Independent of other factors, the present analysis shows that police culture fosters corruption. Furthermore, the present analysis shows that incentive structures within police agencies increase the problem of corruption as the scale of police agency operation increases. Policies that would promote higher levels of integrity are considered.

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“…In 2000, O'Shea andNicholls (2003) conducted a survey of all municipal police, sheriff's offices, and state law enforcement agencies with 100 or more sworn personnel. Of 859 possible respondents, 544 (63%) completed the survey (359 municipal, 159 sheriff, and 31 state agencies).…”

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The Integration of Crime Analysis Into Law Enforcement Agencies

Taylor

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Boba

2007

Police Quarterly

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The purpose of this article is exploratory and it seeks to depict how crime analysts perceive patrol officers' and other sworn police officers' attitudes about the crime analysis function and its "organizational fit" as well as their own attitudes about sworn personnel. These issues were explored with data collected through an online survey of crime/intelligence analysts. The main findings are that most analysts felt that management was fairly supportive of their work, but that their perceptions of what patrol officers thought of them was middle of the road, at best. This is contrary to the much more positive attitudes they expressed about patrol officers. The results raise concerns about whether analysts are being accepted within the police culture and whether patrol officers understand what analysts do, which in turn leads to additional concerns about whether the skills and training of analysts are being used to their fullest capacities.

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Police crime analysis: A Survey of us police departments with 100 or more sworn personnel

Cited by 28 publications

References 2 publications

The integration of crime analysis into police patrol work

The integration of crime analysis into police patrol work

Integrity, culture, and scale: an empirical test of the big bad police agency

The Integration of Crime Analysis Into Law Enforcement Agencies

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