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The September 11 attacks impacted society generally, and law enforcement specifically, in dramatic ways. One of the major trends has been changing expectations regarding criminal intelligence practices among state, local, and tribal (SLT) law enforcement agencies and the need to coordinate intelligence efforts and share information at all levels of government. In fact, enhancing intelligence efforts has emerged as a critical issue for the prevention of all threats and crimes.
PERF has released a new report in the Critical Issues in Policing series, “Policing and the Economic Downturn: Striving for Efficiency Is the New Normal.” This report provides details about PERF’s 2012 survey of law enforcement agencies, which found that 41 percent of responding departments were planning budget cuts for their next fiscal year. This was an improvement over a PERF survey two years earlier, which found that 61 percent of those same agencies were planning budget cuts.… Read More
Sheriff’s offices face fiscally constrained environments and ever evolving crime problems in practically every jurisdiction across the U.S. Searching for best practices and solutions that help law enforcement reduce crime with fewer resources has led some agencies to seek out and incorporate Smart Policing into their operations.
The Edmonton Police Service launched its Curb the Danger (CTD) program in 2006. CTD aims to increase community participation in the real-time detection and apprehension of impaired drivers by encouraging citizens to call 9-1-1 if they observe a suspected impaired driver. This study provides a description and evaluation of CTD. The findings, based on police data and survey results, show CTD has led to an increase in citizen reports of suspected impaired drivers and is a major source of… Read More
"Policymakers at all levels of government in the United States are increasingly turning toward alternatives to incarceration and pretrial detention. The aim is to decrease the cost of the criminal justice system, while reducing recidivism and improving outcomes for people accused of and convicted of criminal behavior.
"Organizations in both the health care and criminal justice fields have been using predictive analytics for a while, but predictive analytics are just beginning to be used in what may best be described as the hybrid field of health care and criminal justice. Predictive analytics are deployed in this hybrid field to anticipate the health needs of the justice-involved, and use this information to treat mental illness as well as other health problems.
The impact of sanctions, whether threatened or applied, on deterrence of crime by high-risk adolescents is examined. Sections of this bulletin include: background; key terms; increasing deterrence through severity—institutional placement and length of stay; increasing deterrence through certainty—offenders' perceptions of risk; increasing certainty though arrest; behavioral responses to changes in risk perceptions—the certainty effect; the deterrent effect of ambiguity in offender risk… Read More
This article discusses lessons learned from Phoenix's deployment of body-worn cameras, to include:
- Include all appropriate city and county stakeholders;
- Develop a communitywide strategic plan;
- Collaborate with unions and community organizations;
- Proactively educate city partners in the technology; and
- Increase attention on the needs of the city prosecutor’s office.
The Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council’s (CICC) Five in 5 is a snapshot of law enforcement and criminal intelligence-related articles, resources, and research that may be of interest to CICC members and partners working to improve the nation’s ability to develop and share criminal intelligence. Topics include human trafficking, counterterrorism, community policing, social media, and privacy.
Investments in research have dramatically improved the science of forensic DNA testing and our understanding of sexual assault kits. This flyer outlines what we know and don’t yet know, based on research to date.
