A Series of Cognitive Frameworks for Police RTCC: 01 - OODA

How might cognitive frameworks help people who work inside police " real-time crime centers ?" To me, it's about putting people, ideas, & pieces of technology together in ways that enhance awareness, sense-making & decision-making. The first framework I'll introduce is Boyd's OODA . OBSERVE: These are the individual sensors, alerts, notifications, camera feeds, & info sources that make their way in front of a human. We are getting better at leveraging technology to automate this process. It's like multiplying our eyes & ears out there in the field. This is NOT situational awareness; it's simply receiving inputs. ORIENT: This is the contextual understanding of "so what" when a sensor gets triggered or some other information comes in. This is where Intelligence sits, as a form of individual & organizational understanding, sense-making, & pattern discernment. It helps answer "why does this matter?" Without backgr