COMPSTAT (Computer Statistics)
Driving Down Gun Violence (Part One)
Three LEADS Scholars serving in different law enforcement agencies and positions discuss their experiences with identifying and implementing evidence-based interventions to reduce gun violence. NIJ Senior Advisor Dr. Tamara Herold hosts this conversation with guests Police Chief Cecilia Ashe (Milford Delaware Police Department), Chief of Staff Lieutenant Matthew Barter (Manchester, NH Police Department), and Analytical Services Manager Mr. Jason Schiess (Durham, NC Police Department).
Assessing Police Performance in Citizen Encounters: Police Legitimacy and Management Accountability
Measuring, managing, and enhancing procedural justice in policing: Promise and pitfalls
Compstat and the New Penology: A Paradigm Shift in Policing?
Building Trust Inside and Out The Challenge of Legitimacy Facing Police Leaders
In the face of budget cuts, changing workforce demands, new varieties of crime and new technologies, how should police executives manage officers and other personnel and still ensure that organizational goals are being met?
Drawing on new data from a national sample, Dr. Dennis Rosenbaum, Director of the Center for Research in Law and Justice at the University of Illinois, Chicago, discussed the latest findings...
Did Ceasefire, Compstat, and Exile Reduce Homicide?
Compstat and Organizational Change in the Lowell Police Department: Challenges and Opportunities
Predictions Put Into Practice: a Quasi-experimental Evaluation of Chicago's Predictive Policing Pilot
Tactical Deployment: The Next Great Paradigm Shift in Law Enforcement?
Criminology Against Crime: Criminologists and Crime Control for the Indianapolis Police Department
Integrating Crime and Traffic Crash Data in Nashville
COMPSTAT and Bureaucracy: A Case Study of Challenges and Opportunities for Change
Growth of Compstat in American Policing
Police Departments' Adoption of Innovative Practices
Children as Citizens: Engaging Adolescents in Research on Exposure to Violence
Since the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989, great strides have been made in the areas of child protection and advocacy. However, the concept of children, and specifically adolescents, as functional and engaged citizens has also emerged. Through the guidance and recognition of adults, children can participate in deliberative democracy as legitimate and competent citizens. This citizenship, like that of adults, can be used to enrich and improve local communities by creating a sense of ownership and fairness. Dr.
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How Collaboration Between Researchers and Police Chiefs Can Improve the Quality of Sexual Assault Investigations: A Look at Los Angeles
Panelists discuss the application of research findings from an NIJ-sponsored study of sexual assault attrition to police practice in Los Angeles. There are three main focal points: (1) the mutual benefits of researcher/practitioner partnerships, (2) the implications of variation in police interpretation of UCR guidelines specific to clearing sexual assault (with an emphasis on cases involving nonstrangers), and (3) the content of specialized training that must be required for patrol officers and detectives who respond to and investigate sex crimes.
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The State of the Police Field: A New Professionalism in Policing?
Panelists debate the premise of a Harvard Executive Session working paper that suggests police organizations are striving for a "new" professionalism. Leaders are endeavoring for stricter standards of efficiency and conduct, while also increasing their legitimacy to the public and encouraging innovation. Is this new? Will this idea lead to prematurely discarding community policing as a guiding philosophy?
From Crime Mapping to Crime Forecasting: The Evolution of Place-Based Policing
Police Pursuits in an Age of Innovation and Reform
Using Research to Move Policing Forward