BD Spokes: PLANNING: WEST: Big Data and Criminal Justice in the Western United States

一般来说，公共部门对数据使用不当与缺乏资源和缺乏更有效地使用数据所必需的政治意愿有关。考虑到大数据对所有受政策实施影响的人提高政府决策透明度的潜力，这是令人不安的。刑事司法是一个改变其做法的领域，试图使其决策过程对社区居民更加透明，特别是使用面向社区的警务（COP）。最近的头条新闻表明，警察部门迫切需要通过提高透明度和效率来建立和维持与社区的信任。数据以透明的方式用于加强警察服务，已被证明可以提高社区信任水平，减少警察与社区成员之间的负面互动。该计划赠款项目旨在通过确定和创建关键利益相关者团队或节点，以及通过三个研讨会的系统参与过程，确定在刑事司法系统中利用大数据的挑战和机遇，特别是在COP中，旨在引出美国西部大数据和社区警务可行性的信息，数据需求以及挑战和机遇。在项目完成时，团队和节点将确定一系列具体和系统的机会，利用大数据进行警务。在刑事司法系统中使用大数据有可能通过提高资源分配效率来扩大缔约方会议的做法，从而解决这一问题。通过确定不同部门在采用大数据战略方面存在的系统性障碍，从这项规划拨款中获得的知识价值将进一步将大数据与刑事司法联系起来。大数据等技术创新常常被决策者和公众误解或误用。由于其参与性，该计划赠款有机会通过参与和告知不同受众围绕大数据的对话，更广泛地影响社会。项目团队还希望接触到与大数据科学和政策决策相关的代表性不足的群体。

Poor use of data in the public sector, in general, have been linked to lack of resources and the lack of political will necessary for more efficient and effective use of data. This is troubling, given the potential of big data to increase the transparency of government decision making to all those impacted by policy implementation. Criminal Justice is one field shifting its practices in an attempt to make its decision making process more transparent to community residents, particularly with the use of community oriented policing (COP). Recent headlines demonstrate the urgent need for police departments to build and maintain trust with their communities through greater transparency and effectiveness. Data, when used to augment police services in a transparent fashion, has been shown to lead to heightened levels of community trust and reduce negative interactions between police officers and community members. This planning grant project seeks to identify the challenges and opportunities of utilizing big data in the criminal justice system, specifically in COP through the identification and creation of key stakeholder teams, or nodes, and a systematic participatory process with three workshops designed to elicit information, data needs, and challenges and opportunities for the viability of big data and community policing in the Western US. At the completion of the project, the team and nodes will have identified a list of concrete and systemic opportunities for utilizing big data for policing.The use of big data in the criminal justice system has the potential to address this problem by augmenting COP practices through increased efficiency in resource allocation. The intellectual merit gained from this planning grant will further link big data and criminal justice by identifying systematic obstacles from diverse sectors to adopting big data strategies. Technological innovations such as big data are often misunderstood or misapplied by policy makers, and the general public. Because of its participatory nature, this planning grant has the opportunity to more broadly impact society by engaging and informing a diverse audience around the conversation of big data. The project team also hopes to reach underrepresented groups associated with the science of big data and policy decision-making.