Ohio police crack down on crime with technology

Police in Lorain, Ohio, are beginning to crack down on crime by improving their use of advanced technology to catch criminals.

A new system will show the most crime-stricken areas of the city in order for patrol officers to dispatch to those areas at different times throughout the day. The determination of where officers will be dispatched will come from statistics based on police reports compiled from previous incidents.

“The police department’s going to intelligence-led policing,” police spokesperson Michael Failing told local news source the Chronicle Telegram. “We do hot-spot mapping to determine what areas in the city we’re going to direct our patrol units to.”

Officers will handle routine calls during their usual 12-hour shifts, but the focus of their day will range from traffic control to burglaries and quality of life issues, the source reported. The department's shift to crime analysis is spurred by its membership in the Northern Ohio Violent Crime Consortium, which is a group paid for by taxpayers to train police in computerized crime analysis.

The city previously used very little computerized crime analysis, but has made huge strides in increasing its technology, Kent State University professor Eric Jefferis told the source.

With Ohio reporting more than 11 million violent crimes in 2010, according to FBI statistics, the state is looking towards making communities safer for residents.

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