Calvert County Sheriff Mike Evans [R] and two sheriff’s office bureau leaders gave the county commissioners an overview of their latest law enforcement strategy. As of June 1, the Data-Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety (DDACTS) is being implemented by the sheriff’s office.
In a memo to the Calvert County Commissioners, Evans explained that DDACTS is supported by a partnership among the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance and the National Institute of Justice.
“We didn’t invent this,” said Evans, who explained DDACTS is being implemented in other counties. “It’s just a different way of doing business.”
“It potentially doesn’t cost any money to do this,” said Lt. Bobby Jones of the sheriff’s office’s Bureau of Administrative and Judicial Services.
Evans explained DDACTS was an integration of “location-based crime and traffic crash data to determine the most effective methods for deploying law enforcement and other resources. The goal of DDACTS is to reduce crime, crashes and traffic violations across the country.”
Crime and traffic data compiled from March 2010 to March 2011 was analyzed with the help of Washington College.
As a result of the analysis, the sheriff’s office identified three focused enforcement areas:
· North Beach and Chesapeake Beach
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