CRJS 210 Introduction to Law Enforcement
Assignment Details
In the last 4 weeks, you have explored the development of the United States police service. You have learned about the fundamental principles shaping the police service, key reform periods, and several issues and challenges facing the service.
In this activity, you will further develop your analytical and technology skills by collecting, analyzing, and presenting crime statistics for either your local agency or the closest agency whose crime data have been made available.
In 2 pages, complete the following:
- Select a police agency for which you can access the index of Part I offenses.
- If you have issues finding crime data, you could use the open-crime data offered by the Seattle Police Department at this link.
- In MS Word, create a table with the Part I offenses for the past 10 years.
- This table should include data for the following offenses:
- Homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft, larceny-theft, and arson
- This table should include data for the following offenses:
- Discuss the trends associated with the total crime for the city.
- Compare the rates associated with each of the Part I offenses.
- Discuss the proportion of crime on each Part I offense.