ABSTRACT
Chapter 16 is about police operations crime analysis, which is often defined as the analysis of police operations, including workload distribution by area and shift. In general, this type of crime analysis describes the study of a police department’s policies and practices—including its allocation of personnel, money, equipment, and other resources, geographically, organizationally, and temporally—and whether these operations and policies have the most effective influence on crime and disorder in the jurisdiction.
While police operations analysis is distinct from the three other types of crime analysis, it does go hand in hand with strategic crime analysis, as many operations decisions (including geographic and temporal allocation of officers) are based on long-term crime trends.
The techniques associated with operations analysis are varied, but basically involve police records, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) data, and several qualitative research methods.
