Data-Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety: An Effective and Efficient Model for Law Enforcement Agencies
Author: John Coyle.; Shannon Purdy.
Source: Volume 17, Number 02, Spring 2013 , pp.31-33(3)
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Abstract:
Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety (DDACTS) is being promoted as a tool to improve data applications, reduce needed resources, and simultaneously drive down crime and crashes. This article describes the DDACTS approach to combating crime and promoting traffic safety, its benefits to law enforcement agencies, needed resources, critical participants, and how to get an agency involved.Keywords: “Hot spot” saturation traffic enforcement
Affiliations:
1: NHTSA; 2: NHTSA.