The city of Pinellas Park, Florida is a city with a population of approximately 52,000 people and is the location of the west coast of Florida’s busiest Wal-Mart Supercenter. This Wal-Mart Supercenter is located with 1/4 mile of a mall that has more than 65 retail and food establishments with a Home Depot located next door to it. As a result of such a concentrated number of retail establishments within close proximity of each other, a majority of the available patrol staff of police officers is allocated to this area of the city. The police department for the City of Pinellas Park is budgeted for a sworn force of 105 officers. Often times, due to military deployments and natural attrition, the department’s available officers range from 95 …show more content…
These items are sought after due to the fact that they are used as currency in the low income neighborhoods and are easily sold at local flea markets and to some of the local convenience store owners at a profit (Finklea, 2012). The volume of people who patron the Wal-Mart Supercenter makes it difficult to apprehend all theft suspects. As a result of the missed apprehensions, the perceived threat of apprehension on the part of the criminal is minimal. This minimal expectation of apprehension does little to deter the theft activities from occurring (Hayes, Downs, & Blackwood, 2012). During the times of the economic slowdown, Wal-Mart will occasionally reduce its loss prevention staff which exacerbates the theft problem (Gravelle & Rogers, 2011). As Wal-Mart reduces the number of loss prevention officers in the store, the probability of a successful apprehension …show more content…
Effectiveness defined in the context of the private and public sectors can be defined as meeting the end goal (Jackson & Brown, 2007). In the case of the Pinellas Park Police Department, the end goal is to more effectively allocate personnel in an attempt to utilize intelligence led policing strategies to reduce retail thefts that are occurring at the Wal-Mart Supercenter. To meet this end goal effectiveness takes in to account the future and any possible variables that may arise to change the course of the organizations direction. Effective organizations keep the long term strategy in mind and are more adaptable to changes in the environment (Ratcliffe J. H., 2003). From a basic managerial or leadership perspective, effectiveness deals with seeking out better ways to do what is already being done. Since effectiveness focuses on doing what is already being done better, innovation and creativity is more likely to occur (McKay, Wood, & Brantley,
According to Kelling, Pate, Dieckman, & Brown (1974), patrol is the “backbone” of police work. This belief is based around the premise that the mere presence of police officers on patrol prohibits criminal activity. Despite increasing budgets and the availability of more officers on the streets, crime rates still rose with the expanding metropolitan populations (Kelling et al., 1974). A one year experiment to determine the effectiveness of routine preventive patrol would be conducted, beginning on the first day of October 1972, and ending on the last day of September 1973.
This is a picture of the organizational environment that encompasses the PD, Butterfield & Ferris (1974). The PD offers a wide variety of services to its community to include school resource officer, Detective services, loss prevention and mitigation services, domestic violence training, vacation house checks, background checks for public and private sector employees, as well as all of the other normal functions a Police Department would offer to its community. The mission Butterfield & Ferris (1974) of the PD, is to protect the community at large and to develop and maintain a good working relationship with businesses, the public, and its visitors as well as its detractors.
The preponderance of crimes in Groveland can be explained using the theories of social disorganization, strain theory, social control theory, and even labeling theory. Social disorganization theory, is emphasized the most throughout the narrative in Black Picket Fences. As described above, the moral fabric of law-abiding citizens and Groveland gangsters alike, contribute to crime being kept a minimum. Furthermore, various efforts of social control on the parts of both parties contribute to crime or lack thereof. In example, by Black Mobsters keeping drug activity in Groveland at a minimum, they are securing their profits on the one hand and deterring additional crime on the other
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Organizational changes are constant in both the public and private sector. Some changes are small and easily managed and others are large scale vision changes. With organization-wide changes, such as a redirection in the organizations vision, strong creative leaders are needed to ensure the vision is sold to the employees and that the change is implemented smoothly. The Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) has recently changed visions to strengthen the way we create long term public safety. This change in mission and vision statements was a smooth process but has not been implemented without its share of issues.
One of the main objectives of an organization is to beat its counter part in our possible way. In order for an organization to insure that they must be good at leading, planning, organizing and controlling their resources and materials to accomplish performance objectives. In other words management. There are four main types of management, Classical, Behavioural, Quantitative and now the Modern Approach to Management. The Modern Approach states that there is no one good way of management. A successful organization utilizes all the types of management. A good example of this is the movie Lean on Me, starring Morgan Freeman as Joe Clark, the protagonist of the movie. Joe is a very talented teacher, who takes a lot of pride in his work, but due to certain events (budget cuts), he has to make some very key decisions upon his future at East Side High, New Jersey. After the resignation of Joe Clark, things go back to worse at East Side High, so after 20 years Joe is once again called upon to take the duty of the principal of this once great school. His goal was to accomplish a 75% average on the state's basic skills test. This goal might be easy at any school, but then again East Side High was not just another school. The previous year the score was 33%. The school was filled with drug dealer, crime, graffiti and other things. Therefore it required a miracle to increase the school's literacy average by approximately 40%.
The first step is to weed out the ones who just are not right to be a officer. The next step is to find the ones who fit the needs of the department. Medical and psychiatric testing, personal interview, and background information is used when identifying if a person is a good fit. There is research that has identified five personality characteristics that allows a police officer to excel in his or her job: extrovert, emotional stability, agreeable, conscientious, and open to experience. People also need to be aware of working in a high crime area. Even if the person has all five traits, but can’t handle the stress they may need to find another profession. There may be times new hires come from another department, but before hiring they need to talk to the previous employer. There may be certain reasons that the officer for hire is wanting to move to a different department. They could have been disciplined or terminated if they had not agreed to resign. This is not okay for the officers are not taking the consequences for their behavior.
Shoplifting is a major problem in today. The temptation of not paying for something, just hiding it away and saving your own money is a large factor for some people. The culprit just thinks he's getting a product for free and doesn't know what he's actually doing to himself and the community. Shoplifting effects everyone, yourself and the everyone in the local neighborhood.In this essay I'm going to explain some of the circumstances of stealing from local stores, or any store. After I've been caught stealing I found out how wrong it is and how it is a disadvantage to everyone.
Besides that, OB can serve managers, leaders and customers’ purposes. To begin with managers who have to expand their information about the attitude and group’s behavior to improve the organization work environment and to create a business plan to have a successful organization. First of all, managers can build a better workplace by recognizing the challenges that face any organizations because of some strategies that used in business environment. For example, one of the challenges are that having a cultural diversity in organization, so managers can build the organization with different cultures which help to encourage employee to do their job well and communicate with others in appropriate way. Secondly, managers can measure the effectiveness and efficiency; also, they can identify the strength and weakness of the organization. According to national institutes of health, Organizational effectiveness is about each individual doing everything they know how to do and doing it well (NIH, 2004). Moreover, OB offers ways that provide ways in how managers can trust their employees’ potential and using a reward system to enhance employees’ performance. OB is helping the managers on providing some strategies such as indentifying problems by searching and gathering information to have an accurate decision.
According to business dictionary effectiveness is the degrees to which objectives are achieved and the extent to which targeted problems are solved. In contrast to efficiency, effectiveness is determined without reference to costs and, whereas efficiency means "doing the thing right," effectiveness means "doing the right thing."
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Shoplifting is a crime that has been around for ages. It is also a crime that is on the rise. Many young people view shoplifting as harmless. They see it as a challenge or a game. It is not harmless nor is it a game. It affects the retailers and the consumers, as well as the person who commits the crime and their community. Some of the impacts of shoplifting include; merchants losing money, consumers paying higher prices, and shoplifters’ lives are changed-not always for the better. So who commits these thefts? Studies show that most shoplifters are or began in their teens. In fact, 86% of kids say that they know other kids who shoplift. Of those 86%, 66% say that they hang out with those kids. Other studies show that 47% of high school students have shoplifted within the last year. These acts are devasting in many ways. First, these individuals who shoplift do so not because of financial need, but because of peer and personal pressures and because they couldnt just wait a few days. Second, juvenile shoplifters that remain uncaught often get into more serious crimes. One of the main consequences of shoplifting is the merchants. Shoplifting affects both large and small businesses alike. It is estimated that the losses due to shoplifting exceed $40 billion in the United States alone. The U.S. National Crime Prevention Council says that almost a third of all businesses in the United States are forced to close because of theft. Another group that is hit hard by the effects of shoplifting is the consumers. Prices are raised to try to counteract the losses from shoplifting. This causes consumers to have to pay higher prices for everyday items. In some areas, consumers pay as much as $300 more a year due to price increases bec...
For instance, it is estimated that only about one in every 150 shoplifters is caught by the police and apprehended (Clarke and Petrossian). In fact, shoplifters themselves have admitted that when shoplifting they are caught on average once in every 48 incidences, and after they have been caught, they are only turned over to the police 50% of the time (“Shoplifting Statistics”). Even after being caught, 57% of adults and 33% of teenagers say that they continue shoplifting anyway (“Shoplifting Statistics”). Overall, one in eleven people in the United States shoplifts today adding up to a staggering 27 million American, and over the last five years, more than 10 million shoplifters have been caught (“Shoplifting Statistics”). All things considered, shoplifting is a major problem that needs to be dealt with in multiple
Desperate times lead to desperate measures. A man loses his job and has no money to feed his family. One might assume left with no other means the man might resort to stealing. The United States is currently in the midst of a recession so severe some speculate will last longer than the Great Depression. Various indicators of the economic health such as the unemployment rate and home foreclosures have reached their worst records in decades over the last several months. Given the state of the financial crisis law enforcement agencies have warned of increased criminal activity. Despite the economic turmoil and high levels of unemployment, crime rates have fallen significantly across the United States.
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