Smart policing
Crime is unfortunately omnipresent. Every city has a police force trying to catch criminals and reduce the crime rate. Smart cities also require policing: smart policing, where law enforcement agencies employ evidence-based data-driven strategies that are effective, efficient, and economical. The concept of smart policing emerged somewhere in 2009, driven mainly due to limited budget constraints. The fundamental idea driving the smart policing concept was given by Herman Goldstein (University of Wisconsin, 1979). He argued that police shouldn't view criminal incidents as isolated events but, instead, as overt systems of problems that have a history and a future.
In the US, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) has funded ...
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