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No one can deny the convenience and the ease that the Big Data revolution has brought to us. Big Data has changed the way people look at data. However, these advancements have widened the gap between what is possible and what is legally allowed. The scale and ease with which everything can be done in big data has raised concerns on several ethical issues specifically related to privacy, transparency, identity and confidentiality. Through Big Data, developers can now access and tap into varied sources, which can even come from far-flung areas. Something that developers and statisticians from before the Big Data revolution dare to only dream about. According to Jonathan King and Neil Richards, authors of “What’s up with Big Data Ethics?”, man’s ability to discover new patterns and knowledge from data is moving faster than what the current legal and ethical guidelines can manage. As technicalities in the realm of Big Data continue to expand, debates have already ensued as to how Big Data challenges pre-existing policies, as well as the public understanding. According to a study conducted by the Royal Statistical Society (UK), there are 2 primary reasons of questioning big data: · Trust in the findings · Truth in the methods The leading concern about the uses of …show more content…

An application called PredPol is marketed as a predictive policing software. It assists police officers in determining where and at what time should they patrol given a certain jurisdiction. It utilizes three data points - past type of crime, place of crime, and time of crime - to achieve the following: assign probabilities that crime would occur at a given area and time, present relevant information that is understandable by key decision makers, and allows a more efficient deployment of staff and resources. Police staff that utilize Predpol are claimed to be twice as effective in deterring

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Many people in the company need access to data to help them do their job better. The main questions revolve around who needs what data, and who chooses what data gets to be shared. Looking at all the pieces, as well as the IT and information assets, the governance of the data belongs to a data owner (Khatri & Brown, 2010). The main questions to be answered must include who is the data owner? Who is responsible for data quality?

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I think you might have mixed directed patrol 's definition with proactive policing. Directed patrol focuses on concentrating police presence in area 's where crimes are prevalent, while proactive is where police actively tries to arrest criminals before crimes are committed rather than from receiving an call about a crime. After possibly clearing up any misconceptions about the two kinds of patrols, which would you find the most useful? From your discussion board post, it sounded like you meant that proactive patrol was more effective, is that still the case our have you changed your

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An excellent example of the innovative use of technology is ICAM (Information Collection for Automated Mapping)—an easy-to-use, PC-based, mouse-driven mapping system created by Chicago police officers. ICAM has been installed in all twenty-five of our police district stations so that police personnel—from beat officers to commanders—can quickly and easily generate maps showing the crime patterns in their particular neighborhoods. Just as important, ICAM is allowing police personnel to share this information with the community, so that it can be better informed and empowered to solve problems. ICAM is only one example of how we are using technology to support police.” Community members have been given cell phones specifically for contacting their beat officers quickly.

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It is used to deter people from committing criminal behavior, interrupt crimes that are in the process of being committed, and position police officers in positions for a fast response

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The Progressive Era was a period of social activism and political reform across the nation during 1890’s to the 1920’s. The main reason for the progressive movement was eliminating government corruption. The movement primarily targeted the political machines and political bosses. They also sought out for monopoly and corporation regulations through antitrust laws. The antitrust laws were seen as a way to promote equal competition.

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Chicago has had its ups and downs in the cities violent history, but early 2016 to present has been an exception. Chicago increased in homicides by 59 percent in 2016 and it has only become worse since then with a 29 percent increase in just the first few months of 2017 (Asher, FiveThirtyEight.com; Ford, The Atlantic). It is obvious that something needs to be done, but so far there have not been any major changes made or drastic measures taken in order to improve Chicago’s current state of being. Right now, the three most predominant causes are Chicago’s Police, Chicago’s many gangs, and firearms, hand guns in particular. If the city wants to make any improvements whatsoever then it needs act decisively on gangs and guns, start using different

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It was first published in the evaluation report on problem solving by John Eck, one of the authors of the Newport News report. Though far from perfect, this model rapidly gained popularity with modern police agencies and is in wide use today in its original form as well as various modified forms. The four steps in the process are simple and straightforward. Scanning involves using hard, interviews with individuals, and observing community activities to identify potential problems.

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Broad topic: Ethical dilemmas in the Social Sciences/Humanities Narrowed Focus: - The effects of intimate staff- student relationships within secondary schools. Research Question: - How do romantic student-staff relationships impact on secondary level educational institutions and how can they be avoided? Sub Areas: - Ways in which student-staff relationships affect the performance of the student.

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Today in America we have a crime problem that has been around for generations. Governments in each states spends an enormous amount of money for prisons, police salaries, courthouse and etc. just to try to keep up with the growing amount of law offenders that we have today. Whether we, the citizens like it or not we are exposed with violent behavior from the movies we watch to the music we listen to. Watching the evening news and the top headline news is about the “Orlando Shooting” suspect kills 49 (CNN.com) you are already exposed to violence.

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"While the Internet-based economy provides many benefits, it also raises new concerns for maintaining the privacy of information. “Internet privacy is the privacy and security level of personal data published via the Internet. It is a broad term that refers to a variety of factors, techniques and technologies used to protect sensitive and private data, communications, and preferences.”[1] As the federal government’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)[2] explains: Every day, billions of people around the world use the Internet to share ideas, conduct financial transactions, and keep in touch with family, friends, and colleagues. Users send and store personal medical data, business communications, and even intimate conversations over this global network.

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Abstract Big data is everywhere. Big data revolution is creating paths to collect and analyze information of varying sizes, types and volume. It’s not only used in sectors like marketing, sales and product development. The potential use of big data is also spread to HR and Finance which help in finding new insights and strategic decision making.

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Police (Disadvantages) • Crime mapping is open source information which anyone can access online, adversaries included. Crime mapping will aid adversaries in planning and earmarking criminal activities based on the information provided online. Adversaries can clearly see where police forces are most active and which locations are targeted more often. Adversaries can therefore target the same locations due to poor base line security measures from local police, residents and companies, or target locations where police activity is minimal. Crime mapping is man power intensive and requires additional support updating the system with real time information.

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Technology is growing at a fast pace and every day we see a new product or service that is available. Many times it is hard to even keep up with the latest phone, computer, game console, or software. There are so many different gadgets to choose from and even the internet is on information overload. As a result, we can no longer truly expect to have privacy.

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New technologies that people had never imagined a decade, or even some decades ago, are now expanding and changing all our lives. Taking smartphones as an example, people in old time had never imagined that small, tiny box could enable people to bring smart computer to everywhere. Yet, smartphones are now completely embedded into our lives and changed how we communicate. Technology lets us live simply, more conveniently, and more easily, but at the same time, it creates complex debates and controversies of ethical problems. In this world, where humans cannot live without the benefits of technology, it is impossible to ignore ethical problems.

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