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DCOPS Guided Tour: Rank Areas/Beats

This means you go directly to work on solving the problem. In addition, DCOPS each week produces, unassisted and automatically, printed beat profiles for each patrol officer and neighborhood profiles for each community policing officer. These show the top 60 problem trends. For the top 10 trends it shows the addresses and conditions causing the trend. If you want to be problem oriented you can also ask DCOPS to print problem profiles for any of 81 problems (NIBRS compatible) comparing 55 or more communities. Notice the two sets of three columns below. The left is a traditional ranking of communities, including beats, by volume of activity. The second set is a new more valuable ranking because it shows how far "out-of-kilter" an area is compared to the remainder of the station or city. For example (see below), for Burglary-Residential, Cal Gardens is 898% of-of-kilter above the normal (calculated by DCOPS) for the remainder of the station or city. This measures how far above or below "normal" (calculated by DCOPS) the community is. Managers and officers use this to set problem solving priorities.