CS360 Dimensions
Integrate and Elevate Community and Governmental Partners
Goals:
1. Shared responsibility of outcomes across stakeholders
2. Ensure that policing practices are equitable and accessible to all
3. Enhance trust between community members and the police
4. Understand factors that are impacting the community and their ability to respond
Maximize Organizational Effectiveness
Goals:
1. Ensure officer satisfaction, safety, and wellbeing
2. Optimize officer assignments
3. Provide the resources necessary for success
4. Implement and sustain 360 learning and evaluation
Prevent, Interrupt, and Solve Crime
Goals:
1. Prevent crime
2. Interrupt crime
3. Solve crime
4. Implement and assess promising and evidence-based practices
CS360 comprehensively addresses and promotes the foundations of effective policing. This model employs a 360-degree approach to data collection, analysis, and decision-making to enable law enforcement agencies to approach public safety comprehensively. In the research leading up to the development of the prototype, experts identified several positive outcomes of a CS360, such as:
Policing for our times
Since its development in 1994, CompStat has proven to be a valuable measurement and decision-making tool for police leaders and is widely accepted as one of the most important policing innovations in the last century. But as policing has transformed drastically over the last few years in light of technology and accountability demands, CompStat has remained unchanged. The crime information usually collected by CompStat only accounts for a very small portion of what police officers deal with on a day-to-day basis, and is not always representative of the entire community’s public safety concerns.