NCJ Number
250710
Date Published
January 2017
Length
36 pages
Annotation
This is the participant handbook for a half-day workshop that instructs participants in key steps for planning, implementing, and maintaining an arrest alert system (AAS) for prosecutor's offices in their jurisdictions that facilitates the implementation of crime-control strategies targeting high-priority arrestees, crimes, and locations.
Abstract
Background information for workshop participants reviews the rationale for and operation of the New York County (Manhattan) District Attorney's Office's creation of an AAS in May 2010. The AAS was created as a tool in implementing intelligence-driven prosecution strategies that focus the collective resources of a prosecutor's office on particular arrestees, crimes, and locations determined to be high-priority for public safety. The New York AAS involves customized software that notifies prosecutors by email of priority arrests involving a specific individual, charge, or arrest location. The handbook then outlines the workshop agenda, followed by two worksheets that guide participants in identifying and managing priority arrests and also the implementation of an AAS. The handbook then presents five fact sheets that discuss the nature of an arrest alert, the identification and management of priority arrests, the development of the AAS technology, measuring the success of the AAS, and examples of how arrest alerts can be helpful.