Police information sharing all-crimes approach to homeland security - Scott, Ernest D. (LFB Scholarly Pub., 2009)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-198) and index
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
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
Keywords: Florida Integrated Network for Data Exchange and Retrieval; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Law Enforcement; Criminal behavior, Prediction of; Criminal investigation / Data processing; Information storage and retrieval systems / Criminal investigation; Law enforcement / Data processing; Police communication systems; Datenverarbeitung; Law enforcement -- United States -- Data processing; Criminal investigation -- United States -- Data processing; Information storage and retrieval systems -- Criminal investigation; Police communication systems -- United States; USA