Integrating Community Policing and Computer Mapping: Assessing Issues and Needs Among COPS Office Grantees

Technological advances in computer mapping and information systems, along with theoretical innovations in crime prevention, have together brought crime mapping to the center of crime prevention practice and policy. Desktop computers are becoming more powerful than ever before and computer mapping programs are becoming more accessible, even to relatively small police departments. Many of the recent innovations suggested by proponents of community and problem-oriented policing philosophies require…