Police information sharing : all-crimes approach to homeland security / Ernest D. Scott Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, Ernest D., 1957-

Series:

Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)

Criminal justice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law enforcement--United States--Data processing.

Law enforcement.

Criminal investigation--United States--Data processing.

Criminal investigation.

Information storage and retrieval systems--Criminal investigation.

Information storage and retrieval systems.

Police communication systems--United States.

Police communication systems.

Criminal behavior, Prediction of.

Florida Integrated Network for Data Exchange and Retrieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

El Paso, Tex. : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study of the FINDER police information sharing system provides evidence to support all-crimes information fusion and analysis as a path to improved public safety and homeland security. Examining more than 1,500 users and 1.8 million system events over a fifteen-month period, Scott demonstrates that information sharing produces performance and efficiency gains for law enforcement. Scott looks at the IT user level for the highly contextual influences on successful outcomes and relevant information system metrics. Objective system use and user-level performance measures are combined with use

Contents:

Traffic tickets & terrorists : the information sharing gap

Information sharing basics & FINDER

The call for research : building the FINDER study

Defining the FINDER variables

Sources of data

Analyzing system use

Analyzing success tags

The survey & final variables

Predicting success

Perpetuating success.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-198) and index.

ISBN:

1-59332-430-8

OCLC:

535801893