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Overview Of Problem Oriented Policing

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When looking at the Problem-Oriented Policing (POP) website we see that it provides information to law enforcement departments around the country giving them information on how to deal with a significant amount of community problems (Problem-Oriented Policing, 2017). The website of POP shows in details community issues such as vandalism, street prostitution, and domestic violence for law enforcement departments to gain ideas how they can be addressed. There have been large numbers of police departments that have taken advantage of the enormous amount of resources provided to them by the POP two such departments the Oakland Police Department in Los Angeles, and the other being Lindgate Police Department in Nevada (Calgues, 2015).
The use of the POP information concerning street prostitution produced significant effects for the Oakland Police Department where they were able to build a strong Sara and POP approach to changing a number of offenders conducting street prostitution (Problem-Oriented Policing, 2017). The Oakland Police Department was able to gain the resources need to address the street prostitution problem to the point that they were able to create a program that all members of their department and members of the …show more content…

The department set their focus on these community issues to be addressed vigorously by the department for a period of 90 days to lower the specific crime rate of the community issues being addressed by both the local community members and the law enforcement department. The Department was also able to evaluate the productivity of not only itself for its employees as well by allowing the supervisors to monitor the staff and department activity more efficiently (Calgues,

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