CHAPTER 8

POLICING ISSUES AND TRENDS

INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE

ISSUES IN PATROLLING

 Preventive Patrol?

 Kansas City Study (1974)

Results:

 No significant difference in rate of preventable type crimes (burglary, robbery, theft)

 citizens did not notice the difference

 citizen attitudes toward police showed no difference--fear of crime between areas were not different

 

 Proactive Method:

 Directed Patrol:

 Involves patrolling in the hot spots: Minneapolis study

 Involves increasing patrol in the hot times:

 Involves making more arrests

 Response time:

 Reasons why there is a delay:

 Ambiguity:

 Coping delays:

 Conflict delays:

 communication problems:

 

CHANGING CONCEPTS OF POLICING

 Professional Model

 Emphasis was on internal control with a centralized authority. Most important was

 

 Reason for changes

 

 

 

 

 COMMUNITY POLICING:

 Early efforts--Late 1960's improvement of public relations

 education programs for public

 neighborhood watch programs

 crime prevention clinics

 big brother programs

 Broken Windows model (1970's)

 Neighborhood disorder creates fear--gangs, street people, prostitutes a neighborhood gives out crime-promoting signals. Neighborhood that is deteriorated

 houses falling apart, broken windows, disorderly behavior attracts criminal element

 Police need citizen's cooperation. In order to reduce fear in these neighborhoods, police need citizens to get involved.

Resulted in

 returning to the officer on the beat to build relationships with the community

 Crime control takes back seat to prevention, public safety, maintaining order and community preservation

 

Community Policing Philosophy:

 emphasizes results and not bureaucratic process.

 envisions agencies being proactive rather than reactive.

 Officer on the street must be given the authority to solve problems

 Use problem oriented Policing in conjunction with CP.

 Patrol officers must have crime prevention skills, problem solving skills, public relations skills

 

San Antonio's community policing effort is called SAFFE (San Antonio Fear Free Environment)

 

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