Community Safety Operation Centers (CSOCs) are data-processing “command posts” that have been formed by LAPD at different times in response to what it described as increases in violent crime in South Central Los Angeles.
Both times in the history of LAPD establishing CSOCs, they have been initially established to facilitate data-analysis, communications, and police tactics between the divisions of Newton, 77th Street, Southwest, and Southeast, and have been described as being for South Bureau, though Newton is a part of Central Bureau, not South Bureau.
CSOCs are similar in function and mission to Fusion Centers and the Real Time Analysis and Critical Response (RACR), as well as today’s local LAPD Area Crime and Community Intelligence Center (ACCIC) and Real Time Crime Center (RTCC) - the main difference is that CSOCs were established to centralize data analysis and reports for specific LAPD bureaus.
CSOCs are intended to function 24-7, with all the information that LAPD is gathering from the community through reporting systems and surveillance tactics being directed back to one room for analysis by LAPD crime analysts, and for communication between Deputy Chiefs, Commanders, and Captains across LAPD Bureaus and Divisions.
Image description: Front of the LAPD Central Station building. Central Station is the location of one of LAPD's CSOCs. Image source: locoscout.com