Assignment:
Write 400 to 600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
Choose a large municipal police department such as Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, or your state police department, and discuss the following:
• Summarize its history of the use of data analysis.
• How are the statistical variables such as mean, mode, and median utilized in analyzing criminal data?
• Explain how crime rates are calculated and utilized to address specific issues or problems with the data sets.