Project for Chapter 12
Choose either
Option A or Option B to submit through Class Moodle site on the Project 12
link.
Option A
Due to budget cuts, the city of Camden, New Jersey, lost half of
the police force that served its 75,000 residents. According to the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in 2011 Camden was one of the most dangerous
cities in the United States. A type of MSS called Real Time Tactical
Information Center, a $4.5 million project, is changing the crime rate in Camden
significantly. The system combines gunshot-spotting cameras, in-cruiser GPS
technology, and analytics to provide real-time information for the police
force. With the help of the system, violent and nonviolent crimes have been
reduced 30 and 38 percent, respectively, and aggravated assaults with a firearm
are down 61 percent. Camden County Police Chief Scott J. Thomson says the
system has reduced 911 response time from the 9-minute national average to 90
seconds in Camden. The system has eliminated police dispatchers by
automatically sending the two nearest police officers to the crime scene; their
police cars are GPS-tracked. The system also includes 120 cameras located
around the city that send updated information every 1.5 seconds to patrol car
computer screens. This information enables officers to see where emergencies
are happening at any given time. Squad cars are also equipped with cameras that
can take pictures of license plates and run them instantly through the FBI’s
National Crime Information Center. Additionally, the system keeps track of the
officers’ movements throughout the city and alerts them as to whether or not
they are spending adequate time in each location.
Answer the questions in a
two-page paper submitted through Class Moodle site on link Project 12.
1.
What are the three main
components of Camden’s Real Time Tactical Information Center?
2.
How is the system able to reduce
911 response time from 9 minutes nationally to 90 seconds in Camden?
3.
What is the role of the 120
cameras located around the city?
4.
How might this technology be used
for other purposes?
OR
Option B
SAS Business Intelligence
(https://www.sas.com/en_us/software/business-intelligence.html) and Tableau
(https://www.tableau.com/) are among the popular packages used to design an
EIS. After reading the information presented in this module and other sources,
write a two-page paper that identifies four key features of each package. What
types of businesses will benefit the most from these packages?
Answer the questions in a
two-page paper submitted through Class Moodle site on link Project 12.