What are the current trends regarding the development and operation of policing? How does trending (past, present, and future) affect the ability to plan for development and operational aspects of policing? How can we improve the reliability of trending analysis to better plan for the future? Explain.

Current trends regarding the development and operations of policing include more training, more in-depth evaluations and advance meeting amongst the command staff such as compstat. Compstat is one of the newer methods of evaluating development and operations of policing. Compstat is a form of analyzing productivity and effectiveness as a whole unit by evaluating every department. Within my police agency all of the mayors and compstat officers from uniform, CID, Specialized units and other...