By William Schwabe, Lois M. Davis, Brian A. Jackson
This file presents findings of a research of expertise in use or wanted by way of legislation enforcement businesses on the nation and native point, for the aim of informing federal policymakers as they think about technology-related aid for those enterprises.
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Precinct captains and shift commanders are required to review and comment on the previous day’s crime maps. For the first time, officers in each new shift, as they hit the streets, know what happened during the previous shift (O’Connell, 1998, p. 87). Whether computerized or not, data geocoding and mapping is being done by many departments, especially those serving larger urban populations. Among local police, calls for service and incidents are the most common types of data geocoded and mapped (LETS, 24).
Though we Americans love what technology can do for us, there lurks in the psyche of many a fear or dread of technology as a tool of repression and control, as a means for government to invade the privacy of law-abiding people, or as a force unto itself. This represents an important trade-off for the American people: the fear of technology as a concentrator of power, in this case in the hands of law enforcement, versus the good that might be accomplished with that concentrated power. This fear of the dark side of technology has often been expressed in popular culture, for example, as the omnipresence of Big Brother in George Orwell’s novel, 1984, or as HAL, the computer without respect for human life in Stanley Kubrick’s movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
USAGE OF TERMS This report uses the term “law enforcement agencies” to include police, sheriffs, and forensic agencies at the local, county, and state levels of government. Unless otherwise denoted, we use the term “local departments” to include police and sheriffs’ departments at the county and municipal levels. Similarly, unless specifically indicated, we include in the term “state police” both highway patrol and state police departments. “Departments” refers to all police, sheriffs, and highway patrol departments at the state, county, and municipal levels.
