Emerging from the 2020/2021 COVID-19 period, senior Gardaí and policy- makers wish to use pre-pandemic crime reporting to consider whether local policing strategies were effective and should be introduced nationally. This town’s 2019 policing to reduce theft is one such case study.
Complete a 2000 – 2500 word data analysis report outlining the data measures, trends across the two-year period, and any correlations or patterns you deem relevant, in your goal of providing a coherent overview of how crime patterns changed in this town from 2018 to 2019. Please do not exceed the amount of words or the professor won’t grade it.
Include a short introduction summarising your principal findings and a conclusion section making any relevant recommendations for how this data might be supplemented, different categorised, or otherwise provide for an improved analysis in future years.
Provide any replications or reorganisations of the initial data, any tables, graphs, visualisation, etc., as appendices to your report.
You must include at least three graphs/visualizations, at minimum.
In your report and especially in your conclusions, thoroughly address the strategy changes in 2019 acknowledged by the Gardaí (to mitigate theft offenses), providing your analysis of the effectiveness of their measures, and any resulting changes for other crime types.
