Project Safe Neighborhoods

Guns have the potential to inflict serious injuries, and intensify violence. Gun violence is a constant issue the United States has dealt with for many years. Gun violence is preventable. It can be prevented through a public health approach that keeps communities and families safe. Violence is an epidemic in this society.

The best thing Gun Control will prevent is violence with our youth because Americans need to preserve the lives of the next generations to come. Controlling handguns means that everyone and their friends can enjoy life more without worrying about being held up at AM-PM, or being caught up in the middle of a very dangerous terrorist attack. When deciding on gun control, think first about preserving the safety of the citizens of this nation. Works Cited Buchanan, John M. “Gun Play” Christian Century 17 May 2003: 3 “Brady Campaign.” Brady Campaign 12 Oct. 2003. “Calm Before The Storm The Littleton School Massacre” Court TV’s Crime Library 12 Oct. 2003.

The Chief also stresses the importance of a working relationship with community citizens as well as with businesses and city departments. Overall, CPD has had a proven success rate in the methods used in crime prevention and problem solving. The CIRV Initiative One program, Cincinnati’s Initiative to Reduce Violence or (CIRV), (Ceasefire), targets the gun violence in the city. CIRV offers intervention for youth who have fallen into the gang culture. CIRV also offers youth an alternative to the gang way of life through a variety of social interventions.

Law enforcement agencies nationwide must constantly adapt to the changing nature of crime and the ways criminals must be prosecuted. New dangers like terrorism, as well as old ones, such as public corruption, threaten the public and force police agencies to acclimate themselves to this new environment. President Clinton explained the need for the development of the federal and local law enforcement agencies. “We have begun to find a way to reduce crime, forming community partnerships with local police forces to catch criminals and prevent crime. This strategy, called community policing, is clearly working.

This can show the police are here to help as well as fight crime and the trust of the community won 't be lost after the crackdown. Pulling levers gets positive feedback for its ability to use community service providers to handle problems in the community (Winship and Berrien, 1999). This policing model shows great evidence it works gun homicides(Mcgarrell and Chermak, 2003). This can work with community policing well, since community members would be able to point out the groups that needs to get targeted for intervention. Pulling levers is a special variant of using the main elements of problem oriented policing (Eck And Spelman 1987, Goldstein 1990), which i discussed how problem oriented policing could be used cooperatively with community policing.

Over the last decades, the policing system of the United States have been creating new techniques to respond quickly regarding to emergency calls from U.S. citizens. The reason that policing is creating different techniques is because they want to simply response to the main concern of every call. There are different and similar police strategies that every model has done over the years in order to respond to any types of crimes. The models in policing are the traditional, problem-oriented, community and the order maintenance. The importance of policing is to understand the most serious criminals and figure out a way to prevent future crimes.

“The predictive vision moves law enforcement from focusing on what happened to focusing on what will happen and how to effectively deploy resources in front of crime, thereby changing outcomes," writes Charlie Beck, chief of the Los Angeles Police Department.” 1 Random rounds and beats travelled by police personnel in districts and zones created from geographical boundaries have dominated law enforcement techniques for the last forty years. Although in more recent times, agencies have moved toward a more community based approach of officers using their best problem solving methods to limit problems and aid the public, most budgets require a more efficient leaner force to protect and enforce. Systems like COMPSTAT can take advantage of volumes of data collected by law enforcement to uncover previously unknown patterns and associations to aid officers in their efforts in enforcement and prevention. “The strategic foundation for predictive policing is clear enough. A smaller, more agile force can effectively counter larger numbers by leveraging intelligence, including the element of surprise.

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). According to Kratcoski, and Edelbacher (2008), community policing definition carries four elements. These elements include: involvement of community members, being centered to the community, focus to the crime cause and solving problems, and redefinition of policing goals with the major goal being to improve the quality of life of the community members. The policing incorporates the philosophical and specific approach. On philosophy, it is assumed that the community members have eminent capability in preventing and curb... ... middle of paper ... ... further have a burden of establishing the various parameters of operation to meet the goals of community policing (Police executive research forum, n.d).

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 concern 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 ... ...e of the risk for offenders or reducing the attractiveness of potential targets has the great impact on criminal and disorder activities. According to the authors these approaches are part of the interventions of hot spot because they include things like razing abandoned buildings and cleaning up graffiti.

Mantel supports her argument by giving many examples of mass shooting that have occurred in the United States the last past years, and the consequences of it. To avoid tragedies we need people with the possession of weapons to make us safer, the facts prove that mass shootings and attacks can be avoided by citizens with the right to be carrying a concealed weapon in order to protect himself and others citizens. Crimes reduce as well when citizens who are able to protect are at the scene when someone is trying to commit a