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Cja 401 Criminal Intelligence Research Paper

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Sydney van Lienden
Advancements in Criminal Intelligence Technology
National University
CJA 401 Criminal Intelligence

“The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.”- Henry Ford
Intelligence is the knowledge that provides security for our country; experience comes from our analysts and ability is derived from our freedoms. Over many decades all of this has been accomplished without the use of advanced technology, mainly through highly trained operatives who have infiltrated and obtained information from both foreign and homeland enemies. The current advancements have provided options that ensure the safety and efficiency of intelligence operations, surveillance being a …show more content…

However, the most promising technologic development is the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) that maintain the safety of our human sources while obtaining remote insights imperative to the overall safety of our nation.
If you shut off all the lights in your house at night and attempt to navigate yourself from one end to the other you will notice the number of items you trip over or crashed into are far greater then when are aware of your surroundings. This is what life would be like without the knowledge of where criminal organizations are located, blindly navigating and grasping at thin air. Gathering intelligence on the whereabouts of these organizations, whether within our borders or inside foreign ones can be found through human surveillance, however, an alternative option is through geo-tracking. “Cellular data in the form of “pings”, which is real time geo-location tracking …use(s) either a network based or handset based method for locating the …show more content…

“License plate recognition (LPR) technology is a vehicle-scanning device deployed by law enforcement to detect wanted vehicles… LPR automates this manual approach and also reduces the use of officers’ discretion in deciding which tags to run since all tags within view are scanned. Some LPR systems can scan up to four lanes of traffic and read 8,000-10,000 plates in just one shift.”
LPR is beneficial in many instances of tracking suspicious vehicles that cross borders or ones that frequent known areas of crime. The LPR system works by capturing images of a vehicles license plate number and an image of the vehicle itself that is then transferred to a database that identifies any law enforcement that may be set out to find that specific vehicle. In an example from the article, License Plate Recognition Technology: Innovation in Law Enforcement Use by Arthur Gordon and Ross Wolfe illustrates LPR in action. An unmarked vehicle that was equipped with a mobile version of the LPR system caught “sight” of a vehicle that had been involved in an armed carjacking. After the system alerted the officer that the vehicle was within the database for wanted vehicles, the officer was able to initiate a traffic stop and recover both the suspect and weapon used during

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