全球智库信息集成服务系统

Four Top Themes Identified

• There is a demand for practices and technologies to improve practitioners' knowledge of technologies and how to use them. At the core of needs under this theme was a call for a virtual information repository: a single source for capturing and sharing law enforcement information.
• There is a call for practices and technologies to improve police-community relations. Very high interest in this theme is being driven largely by the social and political tensions raised in recent years, in the wake of officer-involved shootings controversies and civic unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, Baltimore, Maryland, and other jurisdictions.
• There is a need to improve the sharing and use of information. This includes identifying what information is most useful, to avoid the problem of officers being overloaded with information.
• There is a need to improve forensic capabilities. Many needs here concerned remediating forensic backlogs and lacks of resources driving them.

Additional High-Priority Needs

• There is a need to improve a range of personal equipment and practices for using them.
• There is a need to develop policies and core use cases for unmanned aerial systems.
• There is a need to improve dispatch center operations.
• There is a need to improve defenses against active shooters, both to improve reporting to detect them before they attack and to improve training on how the public should respond.
• There is a need to identify requirements for technologies to improve officers' physical and mental health.