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1 Winslow Township Police Department Law & Justice, Rowan University 05329: Intelligence, Policing, and Counterterrorism December 2nd, 2023 Winslow Township Police Department

2 In one month, our municipality is planning to have a Winslow Township Weekend Event, taking place from December 30th to the 31st. This weekend-long event will consist of face painting, carnival rides, pony rides, multiple food vendors, different games, officers speaking about safety, and multiple kiosks with clothes, magnets, mugs, and keychains with our logo on it. This event is a great way to engage with the community and get friends and families out of the house, while also promoting our police department and putting out a good name. It’s very important to have a relationship with the community. Although this will be a weekend of fun, I am quite concerned. Coincidentally, we will be promoting safety, but I am worried for the safety of the public during this event. These types of events are great, but draw large crowds which can be worrisome. Whenever large crowds are present, anything can happen. It can either go really good or really bad, and it’s up to our department to prevent an act of domestic terrorism during this event while ensuring that civil rights are protected. I have constructed a course of action using intelligence to make sure that the event will go smoothly. If you aren’t sure what intelligence is, it is the analysis of raw information to provide a synergistic knowledge about a threat. The main thing that we are worried about is preventing anything bad from happening. Before the course of action is explained, I want to give a background on intelligence for a better understanding. In utilizing prevention, we will be gathering information on threats and using that information to apprehend and mitigate or eliminate threats. The type of intelligence that best works for our goal of this is tactical intelligence. It’s intelligence that is short term, goes after imminent threats, and is used to prevent and mitigate. Another purpose for intelligence functions for the event is planning and resource allocation. This provides an assessment of the changing threat picture to me to develop plans and allocate resources to meet the demands of emerging

3 threats, which is necessary for the event in case a threat does emerge. In full circle, this accomplishes effective prevention, which is known as strategic intelligence. “The aim of most strategic intelligence is to enable the police to be proactive rather than reactive. This results from identifying small emerging crime groups and interdicting them” (Sommers 2008). Along with strategic intelligence, an intelligence cycle is basically the outline to catching crime. An intelligence cycle is a methodology to process information to solidify that the most accurate, actionable intelligence is produced and disseminated to the people who provide an operational response to prevent a threat from reaching fruition. The process of this is planning and direction, collection, processing and collation, analysis, dissemination, and reevaluation. “The intelligence process is essential for the weekend that we are hosting. As part of my course of action, the first thing that needs to be done is to get partner agencies involved ahead of time. Getting support from our state, local, tribal, and other law enforcement officers from different departments is essential. It’s good to have them for back-up support if needed, and for extra security. They can also help improve information-sharing when it comes to emerging threats. They will be able to facilitate information sharing while assisting other officers to prevent, protect, and respond to domestic terrorism. The second option to deter domestic terrorism is hotspot policing. This type of intelligence focuses on high-crime areas in smaller and urban areas. This is known to be much more efficient than a random patrol. “A number of studies suggest that crime is not spread evenly across city landscapes. Rather, there is significant clustering of crime in small places, or “hot spots,” that generate half of all criminal events” (Braga et al., 2012). This can promote general law and order maintenance, drug enforcement crackdowns, and preventing domestic terrorism. The large crowds that this event will produce will definitely be a hotspot for crime.

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4 Sometimes, hotspot policing can lead to unfair police practices such as racial profiling. It’s important that during this intelligence-led policing tactic, we do not racial profile. We must look for crime in all areas of the event, even where we may least expect it. Under the Patriot Act, law enforcement has new tools to detect and prevent terrorism, such as surveillance against more crimes of terror. Surveillance cameras will be installed where the event is taking place. Every empty area or corner, a camera is being installed. It’s important to be able to monitor everything that is going on so we can prevent crime or react to it. “For many communities, public surveillance not only has the benefit of deterring crime and aiding in the apprehension of criminals. It can also function to monitor the police, reduce racial profiling, curb police brutality, and ultimately increase perceptions of legitimacy” (Capers). Surveillance benefits all types of police work and aids in the law. In regards to that, surveillance cameras will help us watch everything that is going on within the crowds of this event such as fights, drug exchanges, unusual behavior, bombings, kidnappings, etc. Keeping the community safe is essential and will also give us public trust. Another type of intelligence to prevent crime at this event is CompStat. It was developed in New York in the 1990s to reduce crime, and is now used in a plethora of police departments. It has four principles, which are timely and accurate intelligence, functional tactics, quick deployment, and persistent assessment. “There has been a solid foundation of research supporting CompStat as a crime management tool that demonstrates the value of innovative approaches to law enforcement problems” (Carter 2009). This is a great way to prevent crime within large crowds due to the fact of how timely and quick it is. Although there are many different ways to prevent crime using intelligence, we have to be careful to not violate anyone’s rights in the process. One right in particular is the fourth

5 amendment, which protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures and rights shall not be violated. We have to make sure that there is probable cause, as well as the plain view doctrine. This must be kept in mind during the events. We want this weekend to go as smoothly as possible without any lawsuits against us. In conclusion, I believe that the crime control plan that I constructed will be an effective way to deter, prevent, and respond to crime over the course of the weekend of events we are hosting. If we focus on the intelligence I listed, the events should end smoothly and efficiently. Intelligence plays a great role in preventing crime, especially when there is a plan beforehand, such as the events in place. Community safety is most important and I believe it will be achieved. References Braga, A., Papachristos, A., & Hureau, D. (2012, June 27). Hot spots policing effects on

6 crime. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.4073/csr.2012.8 Capers, B. (n.d.). Crime, Surveillance, and Communities. https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals %2Ffrdurb40&id=977&men_tab=srchresults Carter, D. L., & Carter, J. G. (2009, September). Intelligence-Led Policing Conceptual and Functional Considerations for Public Policy. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0887403408327381? casa_token=n6fgmwTCLFIAAAAA:1wcYR4Op_pQ2t0xuTyWaeWerSumIIogiU5 UpQ1Hc4qMYk9a2-0ftS3rt_3owZkQ6U7s7yWe1JPc Ratcliffe, J. H. (2003, April). Intelligence-led policing. https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document? repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=db84a18d7770e86a575dca82d29533337327b43a Sommers, M. P. (2008, January 9). Law enforcement intelligence: A new look. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08850608608435021

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