44.493 Issues in Criminal Justice Technology & Security

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 Product:          
 Economics:          
 cost?
         
 cost savings?
         
 total cost of ownership (operating expenses, maintenance, etc).
         
 funding sources
         
 would it qualify for DHS funding?
         
 could it reduce manpower needs?
         
 could it automate manual processes?
         
 Public perception:          
 would it make people feel safer
         
 would it make people feel civil liberties were at risk?
         
 would it make people feel it encouraged discrimination?
         
 would it make people feel there was less risk of lethal consequences?
         
 is the technology available to the general public?
         
 Police perception          
 would police feel it made them safer?
         
 would police feel it was easy to use?
         
 would police feel intimidated by training it required?
         
 would police feel it complicated their jobs?
         
 would policefeel it endangered them?
         
 Would it increase potential liability?          
 (For electronic technologies) is it based on Open Standards, and does that make it both cheaper and more robust than competitors based on proprietary systems?          
 Is it too cutting-edge to be reliable at this point?          
 Operations:          
would it speed up an existing process and make it a more effective tool?
         
 would life-cycle costs be too high?
         
 will it foster "digital convergence " by interconnect well with other technologies?
         
 would it require significant disruption to daily routines?
         
 would it allow us to do things we can't today?
         
 would it facilitate collaboration with other jurisdictions and agencies?
         
 Is it approved by the CIJ?          
 would it interface easily with legacy technology?          
 is it likely to become obsolete rapidly?