NCJ Number
80498
Date Published
1981
Length
158 pages
Annotation
This report documents progress in the first 9 months (January 1980 through September 1980) of California's Career Criminal Apprehension Program (CCAP), a program designed to increase the identification and apprehension of repeat felony offenders.
Abstract
California's CCAP is a comprehensive effort to improve police functions to focus on career criminals in nine law enforcement agencies and jurisdictions in the State. The first 9 months of the program have been devoted to capacity building. The overall goal in this period has been to increase the ability of local law enforcement agencies to investigate, identify, and apprehend career criminals through the implementation and use of management, organizational, and operational techniques that have demonstrated their effectiveness in California and other States. Specifically, the first 9 months of program operation aimed at developing crime analysis capability and the ability to provide timely information to patrol, investigative, and administrative staff on relationships between offenses, suspects, and offense patterns. The first phase of the program has been completed in the original sites, with substantial benefit accruing to participating jurisdictions. The program should be expanded to other local law enforcement agencies. In order to yield maximum benefits, program implementation should be continued beyond 2 years in some sites because of differing crime analysis capabilities between sites at the start of the program. Some revisions in evaluation design and methodology are needed, including improvement in the data collection instrument and the refinement of objectives. Enabling legislation, evaluation methodology, and program personnel lists are appended. Tabular data are provided.