Recommended Readings:

1. Improving Public Safety through Justice Information Sharing, National Governor's Association, A Center for Best Practices, February 2004
2. Public Safety and the Interoperability Challenge Public Safety and the Interoperability, Smith, Brenna and and Tom Tolman,  AGILE, April 2000
3. Crime Analysis in America: Findings and Recommendations, Timothy C. O'Shea, Ph.D.

Assignments: 

1. Choose two of the discussion questions from three of the six chapters (for a total of six questions). Write a one or two paragraph response to each of the questions;
2. Go to Page 151 or 152 in the text, complete either of the "try this" exercises. Submit a one paragraph description of your results;
3. Go to Page 166 or 184 (the exercise at the bottom of the page) in the text, complete either of the "try this" exercises. Submit a one paragraph description of your results;
4. Go to Page 193 or 206 in the text, complete either of the "try this" exercises. Submit a one paragraph description of your results;
5. Go to Page 214 and 215 in the text, explore three of the nine websites listed on the page.  Write a one or two paragraph description of each of the three you chose;
6. Go to Page 220 or 229 in the text, complete either of the "try this" exercises. Submit a one paragraph description of your results;
7. Submit a three to five page research paper on how law enforcement technology has, or can, affect one of the following topics (refer to the expanded assignment descriptions for details):
   1. Fragmentation
   2. Community Policing
   3. Situational Crime Prevention
   4. You may choose another topic; however, you must receive the instructor’s permission BEFORE you begin to work;

1. Online forum participation; (click here for this module discussion question) and,
2. Submit a bibliography outlining your research on the Session/Semester Project.
    

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