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Some believe police exist primarily to reduce crime by arresting offenders as the
entry point for the criminal justice system. Since police do not have the capability to
mental health or addiction services, mass incarceration, and the like—the paradigm of
police as “law enforcement” can entrap agencies (McLay, 2018). In the midst of this
enigma, leadership must discover pathways to address the nation’s most pressing crime
problems and the issues facing the criminal justice institutions while threading the
Crime Data is a study of incarceration in the U.S. and how the analytic trends do
not show a consistent relationship between incarceration and the reduction of crime.
agency partners and the Oakland Progressive Tactics Incident Case Set (OPTICS)
Task Force. The role all stakeholders have in gang intervention, prevention and
Measures, the OPTICS Task Force will use a combination of performance measuring
systems to capture the data needed to analyze specific performance of the entire task
force operation.
Brennan study which uses a varied methodology to examine data and the manipulation
of those data sets. This study, along with the information on NYPD, CompStat and the
Three Strikes You’re Out law, are just a glimpse of the interwoven manipulation of crime
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data to meet agendas whether real, political, to suppress or control, or to have trophy
rights.
suppression efforts to affect the immediate and long-term response to gang violence. In
engagement programs, presentations and activities to reach youth at all ages. The
and organizations like NOBLE augment the collaboration beyond the Ceasefire
community relations.
OPTICS will utilize to capture the data needed to analyze specific aspects of the entire
task force operation, components of the gang suppression, intervention and prevention
able to demonstrate the performance of the task force mission through evidence-based
Law enforcement and public safety leadership roles have deep social impacts in
communities throughout the nation. When issues of community concern arise, leaders
are faced with an important problem-solving role. Therefore, organizations must operate
improvement, and become more responsive to public needs and mindful of the impact
of policing efforts (McLay, 2018). Transcending past policing paradigms and adopting
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smarter policing approaches, agencies will earn vital public trust and confidence while
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