The metric most commonly used to measure police effectiveness at crime-solving is a "clearance rate:" the proportion of reported crimes for which police arrest a person and refer them for prosecution. But clearance rates are inadequate for many reasons, including the fact that they are highly ...
Thus, official statistics (both police reports and survey data) underestimate the prevalence of violence in general and during the perinatal period specifically. In this study conducted in Canada, we sought to explore the barriers to and facilitators of women disclosing their experiences of GBV ...
For example, a scale developed to measure salesperson listening (Ramsey & Sohi, 1997) served as the basis of the Active Empathic Listening Scale (Drollinger et al., 2006). The latter was slightly revised to suit a more general social context (Bodie, 2011). Yet, they are counted as three...
Computerized fingerprint scanners have been a mainstay of spy thrillers for decades, but up until recently, they were pretty exotic technology in the real world. In the past few years, however, scanners have started popping up all over the place -- in police stations, high-security buildings ...
Your real threat reporting rate is essentially a measure of how effective your training actually is... Does it help employees identify real-world phishing attacks? There is no greater proof that a training program is working than an improvement in real reported threats. Boosting this metric is ...
Within the first ten minutes, try to spot at least three workers (it could be a mailman, delivery person, or police officer). Within the first twenty minutes, try to notice three different scenes (ex: kids playing, a mom talking to her child, or a couple on a date). ...
While sometimes slow, the tracing system from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives played an instrumental role in helping law enforcement locate the man who opened fire inside a Monterey Park dance hall in 2022. Ross Palombo reports.
Given that the school was operational and there had been no data loss, we decided not to respond to the hackers’ demands that we pay them for the ability to unecrypt our files, nor did we report the incident to the police. Instead, the team set about the long and laborious task of...
The public policy debate around distracted driving legislation suffers from a lack of credible and reliable information. It is difficult to measure distracted driving risk because reliable data pertaining to distracted driving are scarce, and most prior studies use relatively unsophisticated methods when ...
with Black targets, setting higher decision thresholds. Besides providing a more cohesive and richer account of the decision to shoot or not, the dynamic model suggests interventions that may address the use of race information in decisions to shoot and a means to measure their effectiveness. ...