Promises, (over)promises

Vincent Talucci
Vincent Talucci|March 23, 2012

As public safety officials leaf through their favorite criminal justice periodical they are greeted with pages and pages of analytics advertisements. These ads are laden with promises of robust and scalable solutions, improved efficiencies and, yes, the promise of prediction. While reading the advertisements, the mental conversation may go something [...]

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Predictive policing is passé

Vincent Talucci
Vincent Talucci|February 2, 2012

My colleague, Steve Serrao, just published a blog post on the proliferation of varied law enforcement approaches and their related phraseologies. After reading, I concur – hence, this blog’s title. I am not a huge fan of the term “predictive policing”. While others may love it and live it, and [...]

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Just the facts: A short intro to Policing in the 21st Century

Vincent Talucci
Vincent Talucci|December 12, 2011

Since joining SAS, I no longer run screaming from social media, blogs, etc. In fact, I embrace exploring different mediums to highlight how SAS is assisting today’s law enforcement. To that end, and in recognition that sometimes less is more, I give you this short intro. SAS continues to push [...]

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Tower running

Vincent Talucci
Vincent Talucci|November 4, 2011

On September 10, 2001, I was attending a law enforcement conference in Atlantic City, NJ. While I have attended hundreds of similar meetings, this conference stands out for several reasons. First, and most obvious, it was the eve of the day where most of our lives were indelibly altered. Second, [...]

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In law enforcement, it's all about context

Vincent Talucci
Vincent Talucci|September 7, 2011

‘Context’ defined (as cited from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary):  1: the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning; and, 2: the interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs: environment, setting. While context is clearly important, today it is consistently [...]

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The police police

Vincent Talucci
Vincent Talucci|June 8, 2011

Policing has profoundly changed over the last several decades and its evolution will continue as long as there are crimes to commit and communities to serve. The very nature of policing is dynamic – it always has been and always will be. Those dynamics are driven by many things – [...]

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