Summary:
BENCH MARK: LAW AND ORDERThe powers that be need to arrest crime and not just the criminals by putting into operation with greater vigour the concept of “preventive” or “predictive” policing so firmly entrenched in the legal system abroad. The fact that a crime, any crime, will eventually end up burdening the already overloaded justice delivery system is an actuality that is beyond the shadow of doubt. In a society where crime generates abhorrence but continues unabated, the police functioning needs to widen its scope beyond the investigation of a crime. It encompasses actions initiated by the police with the purpose of spotting and averting crime or types of crime. The realisation by the police that it was short of means to track down crime led to the development crime mapping through “CompStat”..