NCJ Number
151698
Date Published
1994
Length
108 pages
Annotation
This futures study presents strategic and transition management plans to be used by California law enforcement agencies to bring them from their present state of minimal exchange of information to a state of open and transparent information exchange.
Abstract
The study panel identified 10 trends that would have the greatest impact on the issue of interoperability. These included (1) use of computers by law enforcement, (2) regionalization of police services, (3) State funding for automation, (4) public support for automation, (5) criminal justice system changes, (6) population changes, (7) computer costs, (8) crime rate, (9) change in demographics, and (10) size of computers. Ten events likely to occur in the next decade were incorporated into the analysis: economic recession and/or depression, Federal/State funding for shared systems, wide area interoperability providing low- cost networking, satellites used to enhance communications, paperless police departments, earthquake or other major disaster, computer literacy taught to police recruits, Federal computerized identification cards, U.S. Supreme Court restrictions on law enforcement information sharing, and citizen crime reports submitted via personal computers. 26 figures, 20 references, and 6 appendixes