Two weeks after you have taken on a job as an analyst for the City of Miami, the Mayor’s office comes to you with the following problem. There has been a discussion about whether the city should support the crime prevention program “Learning from LA,” targeting assaults and theft crimes. The program would involve the exchange of officers, joint planning sessions and CompStat-like data-driven review meetings, as well as the training of Miami officers in Los Angeles. The idea is to learn best practices from the police department in Los Angeles, which has been known to be effective in preventing crimes and clearing cases. The program, however, is qu
Two weeks after you have taken on a job as an analyst for the City of Miami, the Mayor’s office comes to you with…