Deck 16: Operational Crime Analysis

Question 1

Operations analysis is often defined as the analysis of police operations, including workload distribution by area and shift

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Operations crime analysis has no relationship to other forms of crime analysis

Answer 2

False

Question 3

One question that operations analysis might seek to answer is: What is the optimal allocation of officers per shift

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Crime analysts who perform operations analysis tasks may begin by looking at the calls for service and raw data from the department's dispatch system

Question 5

Qualitative methods are never used in operations analysis

Question 6

Often, operations analysis will rely on intensive interviews with the police department's personnel to determine the effectiveness of operations or morale

Question 7

Operations analysts may make any kind of recommendation that they see as important or necessary to improve the functioning and efficiency of the police department

Question 8

Police operations analysts may make any kind of recommendation that they see as important or necessary to improve the ______________ of the police department.

A) Salaries
B) Functioning and efficiency
C) Intelligence
D) Physical fitness

Question 9

Police operations analysis often has to do with the study of a police department's______________.

A) Drug procedures
B) Building plans
C) Policies and practices
D) Seizures of stolen goods

Question 10

Operations analysis goes hand in hand with strategic crime analysis, as many operations decisions are based on ______________ .

A) Long-term crime trends
B) Software purchases
C) Budget considerations
D) The concerns of dispatch operators

Question 11

Some questions that operations analysis might seek to answer include What is the best way for the police agency to divide the city into beats? And ______________.

A) What color should new patrol cars be?
B) Should police officers harass citizens?
C) Can the agency justify a request for more police officers?
D) Should traffic tickets only be issued the last day of the month?

Question 12

The techniques used by operations analysts may be varied, but basically involve police records, FBI data and several ______________ research methods.

A) Quantitative
B) Undercover
C) Scientific
D) Qualitative

Question 13

Qualitative methods used in operations analysis include interviews, observations, surveys and ______________.

A) Focus groups
B) Blood tests
C) Bitemark comparison
D) Personality tests

Question 14

In general, the operations analyst will answer such questions as: Are the department's operations comparable to those of departments in other similarly sized cities? And ______________.

A) Are patrol officers writing enough tickets?
B) Are criminals getting away with crime in our city?
C) Is the department effectively and adequately meeting the needs of the community?
D) Is the community showing the proper respect for police officers?

Question 15

Focus Groups can be helpful in operations analysis to explore issues that are _______.

A) Too complex for police officers
B) Difficult to define
C) Above the chief's pay grade
D) Outside of the scope of policing

Question 16

Police operations analysts may make any kind of recommendation that they see as important or necessary to improve the ______________.

A) Morale of officer's wives
B) Overall functioning of meter maids
C) Efficiency of detective's interrogations of suspects
D) Functioning and efficiency of the police department

Question 17

There are many kinds of recommendations the operations analyst may make, but they are all related to the ______________.

A) Assignment given to the operations analyst
B) Whims of the analyst
C) City budget
D) Chief's personal wishes