Protecting the People

Discover the geographic approach to fighting crime while engaging citizens.
Protecting the People: GIS for Law Enforcement explores a collection of real-life stories about law enforcement agencies successfully using GIS for crime analysis, open policing, and field mobility. The book also includes a section on next steps that provides ideas, strategies, tools, and actions to help jump-start your own use of GIS for law enforcement. A collection of online resources, including additional stories, videos, new ideas and concepts, and downloadable tools and content, complements this book.  
Edited by John Beck, director of law enforcement solutions at Esri, and Matt Artz, an Esri content strategist.
APPLYING GIS
The Applying GIS series explains how to become a spatial thinker, with ideas and strategies for building location intelligence into your profession, industry, or discipline. Each pocket-sized book is divided into relevant topic areas that include a set of case studies and a road map for getting started with GIS.

Introduction
How to use this book
Part 1: Analysis
Smart policing gets a boost from enterprise GIS
St. Petersburg Police Department
Collaborating to address crime that arrests alone won't solve
Philadelphia Police Department
Sharing maps, apps, and dashboards to improve public safety
St. Louis Police Department
Enhancing strategic planning and crime analysis with data analytics
Altoona Police Department
Part 2: Operations
Saving time and money by increasing field data collection efficiency
Redlands Police Department
Purpose-driven apps save time, help officers focus on solving crimes
Houston Police Department
Deploying an app to track fugitives
San Juan County Sheriff
Adopting digital apps to secure the state fair
Illinois State Police
Planning and managing security for a train celebration
Ogden City Police Department
Securing the World Series with real-time technology
Cobb County, Georgia
Part 3: Citizen engagement
Using maps and apps to strengthen community-based policing
Toronto Police Service
Mapping Canada's missing children to quickly reunite them with family
Missing Children Society of Canada
Apps help provide targeted assistance to people experiencing homelessness
San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department
Spatial analysis of opioid use gets lifesaving medicine to the right places
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Next steps