Learning Objectives

  1. Define smart policing, data-driven and evidence-based policing, COMPSTAT, predictive policing, and intelligence-led policing
     
  2. Identify the strengths and limitations of smart policing, data-driven and evidence-based policing, COMPSTAT, predictive policing, and intelligence-led policing
     
  3. Compare the similarities and differences in smart policing, data-driven and evidence-based policing, COMPSTAT, predictive policing, and intelligence-led policing
     
  4. Discuss the relative importance of research findings when making police policy decisions
     
  5. Explain how geospatial crime analysis may lead to place-based crime prevention and how intelligence-led policing may lead to person-based crime prevention
     
  6. Discuss how individual privacy can be threatened by intelligence-led policing and geospatial crime analysis