In the year 1994, the New York City Police Department adopted a law enforcement crime fighting strategy termed as COMPSTAT (COMPuter STATistics). COMPSTAT utilizes the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to map the locations of where crimes happen, recognize the “hotspots”, and map problem areas. COMPSTAT has amassed the wealth of historical crime data. Mathematicians have designed and developed the algorithms which run against the historical data in order to predict the future crimes for police departments. This is termed as predictive policing. Predictive policing has led to a drop in burglaries, automobile thefts, and other crimes in some cities.
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Compare and contrast application of the information technology (IT) to optimize the police departments’ performance to decrease the crime versus random patrols of streets.

Explain how COMPSTAT, as an information system (IS), implements the four basic IS functions:

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Calculate how information systems have enabled the police departments which implement tools like COMPSTAT in order to respond to the crime faster. Apply strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats analysis (SWOT analysis) on behalf of the police departments which intend to implement predictive policing.