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 user perception data to produce empirical models establishing performance metrics. These models identify technology, user, and environmental factors that can be employed to predict the productive use of police data shared between disparate records management systems.
Author(s): Ernest D. Scott Jr.
Series: Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 214
TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 6
LIST OF TABLES......Page 8
LIST OF FIGURES......Page 10
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT......Page 12
CHAPTER 1: TRAFFIC TICKETS & TERRORISTS: THE INFORMATION SHARING GAP......Page 14
CHAPTER 2: INFORMATION SHARING BASICS & FINDER......Page 22
CHAPTER 3: THE CALL FOR RESEARCH: BUILDING THE FINDER STUDY......Page 30
CHAPTER 4: DEFINING THE FINDER VARIABLES......Page 42
CHAPTER 5: SOURCES OF DATA......Page 62
CHAPTER 6: ANALYZING SYSTEM USE......Page 84
CHAPTER 7: ANALYZING SUCCESS TAGS......Page 100
CHAPTER 8: THE SURVEY & FINAL VARIABLES......Page 110
CHAPTER 9: PREDICTING SUCCESS......Page 138
CHAPTER 10: PERPETUATING SUCCESS......Page 170
APPENDICES......Page 182
Appendix A: Survey Item Results......Page 183
Appendix B: Relationships of Instrument Items to Study Variables......Page 195
Appendix C: Statistical Tests and Conventions......Page 196
Appendix D: Correlation Coefficients (r) in Prior Research......Page 198
REFERENCES......Page 200
F......Page 212
K......Page 213
S......Page 214
Z......Page 215
