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Smart Policing: Addressing the Twenty-First Century Need for a New Paradigm in Policing
January 9, 2012

This paper discusses the critical need for a new paradigm in policing: one that incorporates aspects of existing policing concepts in a manner that recognizes the significant changes in the twenty-first century criminal environment, the economic and social realities facing law enforcement entities, and the availability of potentially powerful technology-driven, crime-fighting tools.

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Measuring and Assessing Partnership and Collaboration
August 25, 2011

Collaboration and partnership efforts are often incorporated into the Smart Policing Initiative (SPI). We include these aspects of crime prevention and crime control as core SPI components, and we often direct these efforts internally within our departments (“in-reach” as well as external outreach to justice system, government, and community stakeholders). We rarely, however, treat collaboration and partnership as a variable to measure and analyze.

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U.S. Coast Guard: Purpose, Characteristics, Contributions, and Worth to the Nation
May 1, 1997
The Commandant of the Coast Guard requested CNA analytical assistance in identifying the Coast Guard's enduring features and in describing its unique character as a multi-missioned institution serving a diverse customer base. This task is an essential feature of a brader study attempting to develop a notional end state for the year 2020 by comparing service missions with trends affecting them. We believe that the future direction of the Coast Guard must be consistent with the service's enduring characteristics and its history and traditions. This report contains a brief history of the organization, a description of Coast Guard purpose and responsibilities, and a discussion of service identity and characteristics, organizational motivation, and national contributions. The reader should understand that his document represents an outsiders view of the Coast Guard.
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Alternative-Fuel Vehicles for the Department of the Navy: Appendixes
October 1, 1992
This research memorandum presents three appendixes that support, and expand on, material in CNA Research Memorandum 92-91, dated July 1992. Appendix A summarizes available information on alternative fuel-vehicle emissions. Appendix B describes several hypothetical strategies that the Department of Navy might use in distributing alternative fuel-vehicles among its facilities. Finally, Appendix C describes the calculation of the cost estimates presented in CNA Research Memorandum 92-91 and includes additional tables and figures comparing the cost of vehicles powered by compressed natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, and a blend of 85 percent methanol and 15 percent gasoline (M-85).
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Alternative-Fuel Vehicles for the Department of the Navy
July 1, 1992
Laws and regulations taking effect over the next several years will determine the types of administrative vehicles the Department of the Navy (DON) must buy. Of most concern are a recent Executive Order, which requires purchasing vehicles that operate on nonpetroleum fuels, and the Clean Air Act, which requires fleet owners to purchase low emission vehicles for use in certain parts of the country. CNA analyzed the options available to DON for meeting these requirements. The results tend to favor one alternative fuel for vehicles held for two or three years and different fuels for vehicles held for more than eight years. These results are sensitive to changes in fuel prices and other vehicle costs. Because current data are limited and the alternative-fuel-vehicle industry is undergoing rapid change, we recommend that DON not commit to a single technology until more is known about the on-road performance and costs of all the choices. Appendixes covering emissions, DON fleet composition and distribution, and cost comparisons are published separately as CNA Research Memorandum 92-92.
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MOEs for Drug Interdiction: Simple Tests Expose Critical Flaws
September 1, 1991
This research memorandum seeks criteria for evaluating interdiction operations against illegal drugs flowing into the U.S. Six candidate Measures of Effectiveness (MOEs) are subjected to a structured assessment process that tests them for key attributes. All six evaluate real-world operations. Some of the MOEs are shown to have potential for evaluating hypothetical operations explored through war games, exercises, and simulations. The assessment process, itself, offers a ready-made standard for testing additional candidate MOEs.
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