Running Head: CASE STUDY
You Decide Case Study
Week 3 Homework APA Essay #2
Nicole Galarza
Law Enforcement – William Clark
November 19, 2014 You Decide Case Study
INTRODUCTION
High forces distinguishability discourages criminals. Normally, offenders think twice before implementing their strategies when there is a clear manifestation of police officers. Thus events should be steered in a manner that attracts extreme notice to the police officer or police vehicles.
HOW DOES THIS APPROACH COMPARE TO THE TRADITIONAL MODEL OF LAW ENFORCEMENT? The integrated patrol strategy brings a community-oriented concept of supervising into play, which law-breaking prevention and reduction efforts are functional on a broader scale, rather than concentrating specifically on a group of people within a particular location. The integrated patrol strategy, also calls for more improved fact-finding processes and data distribution between organizations to help in effective solutions to resolving crimes and chase tendencies and configurations, as well as, the potential to toughen contacts between agencies at all levels. Paralleled to the traditional enforcement strategy which reacted to crime after the fact, and only relating different emphases to certain situations,
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Rather than reacting to crime simply after it takes place, community policing fundamentally inspires agencies to improve some results that will instantaneously help with the ultimate situation contributing in the course of public safety problems. Problem solving must be necessary to show infused concern in all police operations and guidelines in reference to decision making process. Agencies are optimistic when it comes down to intelligent thinking with reference to their reactions and in their assessment when making uniform arrests has been only one of a wide selection of awaiting responses or decision making
The Community Policing era has been one of the contemporary police activities in the last 30 years. It is more of a decentralized approach to reducing crime by involving the same officer in the same community on a long term basis, so residents will develop trust and then provide information and assistance to the officer. Community Policing does not replace motorized patrol or other police tactics but instead compliments them with community partnership and problem solving (Bailey, 2011).
Community policing has evolved to be the most used strategy for policing. “It is an approach to crime detection and prevention that provides police officers and supervisors with new tools for addressing recurrent problems that plague communities and consume a majority of police agency time and resources” (Peak, 2012, 65). It has been defined by various people differently. But all the definitions have similar principles (Chappell, 2009). They focus on proactive problem solving and create relationships with the community to address any issue that may arise. Community policing is a combination of client-oriented and problem-oriented policing.
These issues represent a minor illustration of perceived misgivings of community policing. The fact remains that there is no long-term study data available that indicating the community policing approach is superior. As such it would be wise to consider continual analysis of its effectiveness as an approach while not abandoning all other law enforcement strategies based on the preliminary beliefs suggesting the benefits of community policing. The best strategy would be to maintain an open mind and continue to build upon the increased community collaboration created through community policing efforts. At the same time, agencies should be prepared to situationally use alternative strategies to combat crime when it appears community policing may not be the optimal choice using data to demonstrate why other options may be better
The containment approach allows officers to use their discretion and choose to intervene very little during the progression of minor crimes such as loitering and public drunkenness as long as the perpetrators contain their actions to the specific “skid-row” area (Bittner, 1967). Where Brown (1981) considers this as a decision to ignore a violation, Bittner (1967) describes it as an alternative type of action. Bittner (1967) describes three classifications of peace keeping on skid-row. For containment to be considered successful an officer must first acquire specific knowledge about the inhabitants of the area (particularization of knowledge), must discern when it is best needed for an individual to be arrested to keep peace (restricted relevance of culpability), and focus more on the short term results than be concerned with long-term effects (background of ad hoc decision making) because the citizens of these areas have little to lose and therefore have no type of future to be effected long-term (Bittner, 1967). If officers simply enforced the law, it may result in displacement of the activity, as well as making the arrest/release of certain people a revolving door. By using the containment of these areas, and keeping peace in those areas, officers may not be enforcing the law, but are preventing the spread of illegal behavior.
1. Use the decision-making model (page 196) presented in the chapter to map the decisions being made in these situations. Identify how, where, and why different decisions might be made.
Although many may find community policing and problem-oriented policing to fall in the same category, there is (surprisingly) a difference between the two. For one, community policing has many definitions. For some, it means instituting foot and bicycle patrols and doing acts pertaining to the ideal bond between police officers and their community. While for others it means maintaining order and cleaning up neighborhoods in desperate need of repair (Dunham & Alpert, 2005). However, an idyllic definition of community policing is altering the traditional definition of crime control to community problem-solving and promising to transform the way police do their job. Within the past two decades, there has been much research on community
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The term “problem solving” in this context implies more than just simply eliminating and preventing crime. It is a concept that assumes that crime can be reduced in an area by studying the characteristics of the problems in that area and then applying the appropriate resources. The theory behind the concept is that underlying conditions create problems, and problems created by these conditions may cause incidents. These incidents will continue as long as the problem that creates them exists. Determining the underlying causes of crime depends, in great part, on an indepth knowledge of community. Thus community partnership will be of great assistance in the problem solving process. Cooperative problem solving also builds trust, and facilitates the exchange of information, and also leads to identifying other areas that can benefit from the mutual attention of the police and community (Gaffigan, 1994).
Having validated my plan to implement formal community oriented policing the department conducted research into various programs that have been implemented in police departments across the United States. Based on information obtained, it was decided the department would use a portion of the program developed by the Chicago Police Department. Although this department is much larger, there are strategies that can be utilized in our community.
Over time the policing community has faced many different changes to be able to keep up with the new times. The system has adapted many new techniques and a different approach to how they solve problems. Community policing has taken on a number of definition, but put simply it is a working partnership with a community that helps make the area a better environment to subside in. The main goals of community policing is to reduce neighborhood crime, help reduce fear of crime and enhance the quality of life in the community. The United States Department of Justice has defined community policing as a philosophy that “focuses on crime and social disorder through the delivery of police services that includes aspects of traditional law enforcement, as well as prevention, problem-solving, community engagement, and partnerships.” However, community policing can be looked at as not so much a strategy, but a philosophy about how things should be done. According to The Unites States Department of Justice “At its core, community-oriented policing is based on law enforcement and the community joining together to identify and address issues of crime and social disorder.” With new advances and community oriented policing, law enforcement is taking steps in the right direction.
The department is hoping the first year of the downtown community policing initiative will be generally successful, it will experienced a number of difficulties. Problem While the split-force concept and the establishment of a centralized Community Policing Division had the advantage of creating a critical mass that could quickly get the effort off the ground, it also brought with it the traditional communications problems between Community Policing, Patrol, and Criminal Investigations personnel Response all of the community patrol officers will have specific geographic responsibilities the twenty five assign to patrol the downtown area as well as the officers assign to desk duties the patrol officers on the different shifts will be assign a job within and the surrounding downtown area forming a teams with the Community Policing Officer responsible for the area who will coordinate the problem solving efforts between the shifts and neighborhood residents this will also boost the moral of the officers because they will spend least on duty.
Proactive policing began to emerge in the 1970’s in a hope to rebuild the publics relationship and trust in the police officers through the idea of policing by consent. This method of policing requires the police to control crime through more positive methods and involving the community in the overall prevention and deterrence of crime. For the purposes of this paper I will be focusing on the proactive style of policing, and more specifically community policing
In community policing, officers need to work with citizens to put a hold on crime. In the past officers have tried to solve all the community issues on their own (Ortmeier, 2006). However, it came to be that officers essential to the citizens, was also vice versa. Officers learnt that to be effective in solving crimes, that they too needed help. Police officers have always looked at serving the community has part of the job description. As has the citizens looked at the officer to “protect and serve”, and to keep the community safe. With community policing, it focuses on relationships of trust, with cooperation between both. With the majority of police departments incorporating community policing, it has changed the relationships between
Among the main objectives of the law enforcement agencies is to maintain professionalism when dealing with dissatisfied citizens. Citizens expect a lot from the policing agencies as far as presence, reasonable rapid response and neighborhood visibility are concerned. While the policing agencies may have similar wishes, staffing, and resource allocation become the major hindrance (Hoover, 2014). This leads to another challenge, which is the choice of policing strategy to suit a given crime. For instance, using patrols as a specialized service has been shown to work well, but it is a slow model, meaning it can’t be applied in urgent situations (Hoover, 2014).
The philosophy behind community policing recognizes that the members of a community are important and engaging them in law enforcement activities could help to lower crime rate. It is overwhelming when police officers have to carry out their law enforcement duties and still answer to community policing calls for service. However, this gridlock comes about because there lacks a perspective when it comes community policing. Viewing community policing as a partnership between the members of public and law enforcement officers can be a great way to overcome these challenges (Lawrence, & McCarthy, 2013). In such a