Crime analysis maximizes the resources available for understanding and addressing crime, proactive initiatives to prevent crime, monitoring police performance, and using information collected by police and other agencies. The process of analyzing crime data involves collecting and analyzing large amounts of data using technology and systematic methods to identify patterns in crime. This information can assist police in criminal apprehension, crime and disorder reduction, crime prevention, and evaluation. Crime analysis is intended to complement field work, not as a replacement. It is physically impossible to replace the investigative skills of police officers. The LMPD holds weekly Compstat meetings to go over crime stats and deploy officers where they are needed the …show more content…
Research indicates that successful reintegration improves when the transition from correctional facilities to the community is directed and supervised. When youths who are released from incarceration and are stay out of trouble for the first few months after release, their chances of maintaining work, reaching their academic goals, and developing an independent lifestyle increase. A program to support these juveniles would not only help them successful community reintegration but would also reduce recidivism by youths released from juvenile correctional facilities (James, Asscher, Stams, and Van Der Laan, 2016). For many, the fear of crime is how they perceive the current state of crime in their area. Fear of crime leads to a lower quality of life and plays a crucial role in how they defend their home. What most don’t know is that fear of crime was associated with gender, years of schooling, community marginality levels, neighborhood fear of crime levels, and opinion on the local police (Vilalta, 2011).