Neighborhood Watch

Detroit needs it 's community to be able to create a strong relationship between neighbors so they can feel safe and in control. If communities start neighborhood watches that will have a impact on criminals because they know certain areas will be supervised. That will make people in the community feel less afraid and more

CIRV also offers youth an alternative to the gang way of life through a variety of social interventions. This initiative was adopted after the Boston Gun Project started in the 1990’s. The main focus of CIRV is to deter chronic offenders involved in violent crime and to mitigate gang and group violence. The objective is to offer violent groups or gangs alternatives to violence. CIRV has made job training, educational opportunities, and social programs available to these groups, and promotes them as providing “a way off of the streets.” If offenders refuse to take advantage of these opportunities, they are dealt with through the justice system.

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).

Community oriented policing is a philosophy that directs police operation, management and strategies. The model emphasizes on establishing a partnership between community and police and solves problems that directly affect the needs of the involved community (Chappell, 2009). The model of policing promises that coordination between the police and community relations will assist to reduce crime and fear and improve relations between the two, facilitating faster responses to distress calls and routine calls for service. One of the significant objectives of the community based policing is to create a working partnership between the community and police (Alpert & Dunham, 1986). Additionally the community can evaluate problems and come up with solutions and implement the services that are genuinely community based.

Every officer needs to be supportive of the program or it is destined to fail. The role of police can vary, from promoting the development of community organizations and assembling the organizations in problem solving and community building activities. The role of police is traditional known for enforcing the laws, which aim to making good arrests and having a high success rate for prosecution of criminals, and are involved in other maintenance activities, such as maintaining social order and are active in the community. For example, officers can have conversations with citizens of the community and get their perspective of what is working and what needs help. The last thing that is on their agenda is issuing an arrest.

10. Provide Victim Services- these services can help relieve stress and help prevent the victim from being victimized again. (NCPC, 2016). These types of programs involve the community and will help them take back their neighborhood. The community will be more aware and educated in preventing techniques to help minimize crimes being committed in their neighborhood.

Community policing is a policy and a strategy aimed at achieving more effective and efficient crime control, reduced fear of crime, improved quality of life, improved police services and police legitimacy, through a proactive reliance on community resources that seeks to change crime causing conditions. This assumes a need for greater accountability of police, greater public share in decision-making and greater concern for civil rights and liberties. The key characteristics of community policing are as follows: Police officers are usually called upon to be particularly thoughtful, creative problem solvers. They are asked to listen to the concerns of community members, to logically reason out the roots of problems, to identify and research potential answers, to implement solutions, and to assess results. Police officers work in partnership with concerned citizens.

“Community policing emphasizes the establishment of working partnerships between police and communities to reduce crime and enhance security.” 4. “Community policing [is] a working partnership between police and the law-abiding public to prevent crime, arrest offenders, find solutions to problems and enhance the quality of life.” 5. “[Community policing is] a philosophy rather than a specific tactic…a proactive, decentralized approach designed to reduce crime, disorder and fear of crime by intensely involving the same officer in a community for a long term so that personal links are formed with residents” (Champion 2). These definition... ... middle of paper ... ...ka. n.d.

P... ... middle of paper ... ...nd apply for funding to obtain technology needed in deterring and preventing criminal behaviors. Conclusion Creating community policing units creates a better quality of life for low and middle income neighborhoods that are vulnerable for crime. Through the collaboration of social service agencies, community leaders, the police, and an effective strategy; community policing will have a positive impact on reducing neighborhood crime (Peak, 2009, p. 179). Moreover, law enforcement will need to bridge their relationship with community members. It is even more imperative that organizational leaders discover and eliminate any and all barriers that impede the ability to deal with cultural differences.

If the police are able to keep the community, and environment in order it can reduce crime (Wilson, & Kelling, 1989). Order maintenance needs to be prioritized in community policing which can improve social control (Wilson, & Kelling, 1982). Order maintenance is controlling minor crimes so that they do not turn into larger crimes. This order maintenance was made popular in broken-windows policing. Compstat was another police innovation that became popular in places like New York.