Organizational Pathologies in Police Intelligence Systems
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
During the 1990s serious and organized crime moved to the top of the agenda for policing internationally. This shift took place during the same period that new information and communications technologies were being adopted across the policing sector in most European countries, a shift known in some places as the rise of ‘intelligence-led policing’. Discussion of intelligence-led policing against serious and organized crime has tended to focus on formal models of intelligence systems. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the vocabulary of intelligence-led policing by providing the terms for describing the organizational problems that bedevil the organization of police information systems. It is based on original empirical research in the United Kingdom and a number of other countries and provides a lexicon of 11 organizational pathologies. The paper ends by arguing that strategic intelligence forecasts about future trends in organized and serious crime that emanate from the police sector are not as strategic or as comprehensive as they appear to be.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it