Leading with Data - by Jonas H Baughman (Hardcover)

About the Book

Leading with Data: A Police Commander's Guide to GIS and Crime Analysis shows the power of analysis to lead effectively with data-driven solutions and ensure public safety.

Book Synopsis

Crime analysis can empower modern law enforcement agencies to make data-driven decisions that improve public safety, provide organizational effectiveness, and drive community engagement. Yet understanding how best to use this information to lead your agency strategically can be a common challenge.

Leading with Data: A Police Commander's Guide to GIS and Crime Analysis explains critical concepts and strategies to derive actionable insights and enable powerful decision-making. Written to be immediately useful for police commanders who may be new to crime analysis, it is a practical reference guide and provides both introductory and advanced topics.

Commanders will learn how to:

• Use crime analysis and GIS to provide substantial insight into the causes of a problem and design the best possible strategies for collaboration and positive outcomes
  
• Leverage crime analysts effectively to support operation and strategic decision-making
  
• Successfully implement crime analysis and GIS into applicable workflows
  
• Build organizational support for crime analysis as a core function of modern law enforcement

By the end of the book, you'll know the fundamental concepts of GIS and crime analysis and be able to build on that exposure by encouraging the use of the different types of analysis for day-to-day operations as well as strategic planning, crime accountability meetings, and public outreach.

Today's policing requires police leadership to know how to use crime analysis and data-driven strategies effectively for problem-solving purposes - and this book shows the way.

From the Back Cover

The fundamental guide for police commanders on using crime analysis to lead effectively .

Effective, actionable crime analysis can empower modern law enforcement agencies, and their commanders, to promote public safety. But how do police commanders use this information to lead their agency strategically? Leading with Data: A Police Commander's Guide to GIS and Crime Analysis shows how to take a geographic approach to analyzing and utilizing police data, allowing commanders to make more efficient and effective decisions. This book covers how to:

Use crime analysis and GIS to provide substantial insight into the causes of a problem and design the best possible strategies for positive outcomes

• Use crime analysts in a productive and impactful way
• Successfully implement GIS and crime analysis into practice on the job
• Support crime analysis in an organization

Leading with Data is a practical reference guide and provides both introductory and complex topics. The primary goals of this book are to expose law enforcement command staff to basic elements and concepts of GIS and crime analysis, and to then build on that exposure by encouraging the ongoing use of analysis for day-to-day operations as well as strategic planning, crime accountability meetings, or public outreach.

Today's policing requires that commanders know how to use crime analysis and data-driven strategies effectively to solve problems--and this book shows the way.

Captain Jonas Baughman is a two decade-plus veteran of the Kansas City (Missouri) Police Department (KCPD). A native of the Kansas City area, Captain Baughman has held assignments in patrol, investigations, crime/intelligence analysis, and administration during his tenure. Captain Baughman quickly found crime analysis to be his professional passion, and more than half of his tenure with the KCPD has been in positions related to crime or intelligence analysis. He has served as a sworn crime analyst, helped create the KCPD's Real-Time Crime Center, and directed a squad of gang intelligence detectives. Captain Baughman is currently assigned to the Office of the Chief of Police where he provides strategic analysis and other performance metrics to executive command staff.