Effects Of Community Policing

of policing research has shown success in community policing leading to reduce fear of being a victim of crime and decrease the concern about crime in the neighborhood (Wycoff and Skogan 1986). Also when citizens are involved with cooperation and support of police they also see the police as more legitimate (Tyler 2004) which leads to great cooperation. This cooperation and support are mostly from white communities minority communities still struggle to have confidence in the police even with community policing ( Tyler 2004). With the innovation, technologically, modern science and research being put into policing it would seem that we would be able to have the best police. Many clearance rates have gone down from decades ago such as murder

By doing so, Wilson and Kelling believed the appearance of the communities would greatly improve, decreasing the citizen’s fear of crime. Citizens would begin to take pride in their community and feel comfortable enough to just walk the streets. (2011, 106) Wilson and Kelling (2010) believed that the failure to address disorder in a timely manner fostered a belief among community residents that all mechanisms of formal and informal control had failed. This breakdown in community order is proven to be a negative influence on the relationship between the police force and the citizens it is sworn to protect. A community with minimal disorder results in community pride an... ... middle of paper ... ...ke a difference.

This is important to achieve success while using POP (Braga & Bond, 2008). (Braga & Bond, 2008) suggest that it is more difficult for small departments to achieve good results namely because most do not use computers and crime mapping. CPD is a larger department and officers use crime mapping, the SARA model along with empowering and teaching citizens how to prevent victimization by making their neighborhood a better place to live through behavior modification (Schneider, 2010, p. 150). It relays a message to citizens that crime prevention in a neighborhood is not just the duty of the police--but of the citizens as well (Schneider, 2010, p. 12). POP is the one of best tools to use for crime and disorder, and a significant amount of hot spot interventions have been proven effective (Braga & Bond, 2008).

Compstat tries to reduce crime and improve community 's quality of life effectively. Departments use computer software to locate places where crimes are increasing and are able to use GIS(geographic information systems) to locate crime hot spots. This has been used throughout the United States and abroad and has been featured in the media such as on The Wire, (2005). Compstat is able to bring accountability to departments, certain beats, specific officers, and to policies. With the calculation of crime, police departments are able to verify when and where crime is happening and can investigate the cause of this if it 's the management or poor officers attributing to any crime

Both of these strategies want to fix the problem the community is having and not just wait for crimes to happen. This can use crime mapping and investigations in these areas which involved speaking with community member to get insight on what 's going on. Problem oriented policing still focuses on the crimes more than the community. The actual crime might not be the main concern of the community, this can make the community unsatisfied when the police believe they fixed the problem because they solved the crime but have not met the community 's

They could possibly learn this from a citizen’s police academy if this an option for them in the city when they look at policies and procedures. This allows the public to give tips and advice that maybe the agency hasn’t looked at it in that way which could lead to a crime being solved. Having this transparency in the agency will help with the police accountability because it will tie the community with the agency and allow them to solve the problems as a whole instead of allowing the ‘Thin Blue

As the police look at leaders for help in coming together on a plan to implement in a way to resolve issues (Ortmeier, 2006). As with leaders and other community persons being involved with the aspect of improving the community, shows criminals that crime in the neighborhood is not going to be. As with this also, in teaching others, it can limit the role of the officer (Ortmeier, 2006). Although the police is still a function in the community, they can put efforts to other problems elsewhere. It allows the community to share responsibilities in the crime-reduction and problem solving (National Crime Prevention Council, 2008).

Within the belief of the theory, people are not naturally bad individuals. It is the environment in which they are raised and they live in that is responsible for their criminal behavior. To respond to these lower level crimes, the essay says that patrol officers should be encouraged, or managed to get out of their police cars and walk the beat. This way, they are mingling amongst the citizens and building good relationships with the people that live in those neighborhoods. They are also expected to address people committing those minor crimes already listed by either arrests or citations depending on their

Crime did not simply shift from hot spots to nearby areas (see also Weisburd et al., 2006). What should police be doing at crime hot spots? There are still concerns about the effectiveness of hot spot policing, and what police officers should do in order to effectively reduce crime. Because police officer should be spending some time in these places it is essential to know what they should d... ... middle of paper ... ...ar offenders and geographic areas. Even though Operation Ceasefire was done as a citywide intervention in Boston, the deterrence message was only directed to a small audience rather than a general audience.

The police therefore work with the community instead of working against the community, to curb the crime. This decentralization results in police officers handling social and physical problems in the community. As a result, the criminal activities in the area decline. This boosts an improvement in the quality of life to the members of the community. Also, it builds the image of police force in that the police end up being effective and reliable agents of fighting crime (Campbell police department, 2003).