Project Safe Neighborhoods: Strategic Interventions, Crime Incident Reviews: Case Study 3

Summary: • What do you think was behind the event? (final summary) can also be time consuming and tiring. In a number of jurisdictions, the grand review of cases has been an all-day affair covering 40-60 cases over a six-month or annual period. In regular monthly meetings that last two to three hours, comprehensive incident reviews may typically involve anywhere between six and twelve cases. Analysis Sharing information among members of the criminal justice system makes sense for its own sake. By itself, it is good practice. But it is what happens to that information that converts information sharing to strategic problem solving in the incident review process. Critical to that process is the role of the researcher. In the incident review meeting the researcher shares the burden of assuring quality in the information exchange. Seeking additional detail, clarification, or elaboration are among the tasks in which he or she joins the other participants. The researcher’s larger duty is assembling

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