Visit the National Crime Information Center (NCIC)
This week you will research information on the NCIC website for information regarding data collection, storage, and retrieval. This week’s Assignment will help you prepare for a larger Assignment in Unit 7 which requires knowing what data you can utilize from NCIC to conduct a traffic stop and communicate with other states.
Create an 8-10 slide PowerPoint® Presentation incorporating speaker notes outlining the following:
- Describe how is data collected, stored, and retrieved.
- Discuss the importance of data collection, retrieval, and analysis as it applies to officer safety and the criminal justice system.
- Identify four or more methods of data collection, storage, retrieval, and analysis as it relates to the criminal justice system and their importance.
- Explain the importance of NCIC in a traffic stop and two or more benefits crime analysis has for both the community and law enforcement.
- Identify three types of queries an officer may retrieve from NCIC.
Note: Research is required for this assignment. Locate relevant information about the fundamental principles of how data collection, storage, retrieval, and analysis is conducted within the criminal justice system and distinguish between the relative importance of those principles.
The PowerPoint presentation should have the following characteristics:
- Bullets for your main points.
- Must include speaker notes to fully explain what is being discussed in the slide bullet points as though you are presenting to an audience.
- Contains a title and references slide.
- Research and visuals are cited in APA citation format, both in-text and on a References slide. You need to quote material taken directly from a source. The same standards for documenting sources that apply to an essay, apply to a presentation.
- Designed with a live audience in mind in order to inform your viewers about the topic.
Speaker Notes
To learn more about creating speaker notes in PowerPoint, review the webpage below.
GCF Learn Free (2015). PowerPoint 2010-Slide Basics: Goodwill Community Foundation, Inc.
Bonus Questions
Write one paragraph for each on a separate word document.
What is the importance of accuracy in data collection? What was the inaccurate data in the case and how can it be avoided in the future?
Discuss the importance of digital photography or digital imaging in the field of law enforcement and provide two examples where it is used in the field.