Broken Windows Theory: Police Department And The Community
Broken Windows Concept
The administrative and operational consideration of the Broken Windows Theory affects many aspects of the police department and the community. The social disorder of a run-down community can be looked at by a single broken window. The idea affects not only the community but the police force as well. Mayors, politicians, police chiefs, and other administrators want their city to look and feel safe. When small time crime invades the community, it can turn into a bigger crime and the fall of the city. The theory was experimented with in many cities with positive and negative results. Police patrol, emergency and critical incident response, police investigations, and future trends were affected in many communities. …show more content…
Administrative and operation considerations were evaluated after placing police on designated foot patrols. Patrol officers on foot had positive and bad negative. The positive outcomes were the intimate relations ship the police acquired with the public. The public got used to a police officer coming into the shops and greeted them informally, compared to just driving by and only reporting after a crime was committed. The foot patrol officers made a pleasant presence I the community that made the public believe crime was reduced. The negative outcomes with foot patrols were the delayed response to calls and lack of contact with the department. The same was true with emergency and critical incident response (NA, …show more content…
William Bratton of New York’s Transit Police by having police enforces petty crime laws and arrest transients, vandals, panhandlers, and fair jumpers. Rudy Giuliano worked with Bratton years later and implemented the Broken Windows Theory and crime was reduced by 65 percent in the mid-90s (Sahm, 2007). The theory has been modified for police and the administration with Stop and Frisk Laws and other privacy violation laws. This means that even though the theory was intended to beautify communities and become more community oriented in policing, it went in other directions.
Words like community-policing and zero tolerance has the roots of the Broken Windows Theory, but the future may hold more serious punishment for smaller crimes and more police presence in low-income communities. The primary theory was that if there is one broken window in building, youths, or vandals will break other windows, whereas a building with no broken windows would not receive the attention the latter would. Administrations and operational considerations have improved the idea, and in the future, reconstruct how crime is dealt with and how police can protect and serve the community
The administrative and operational consideration of the Broken Windows Theory affects many aspects of the police department and the community. The social disorder of a run-down community can be looked at by a single broken window. The idea affects not only the community but the police force as well. Mayors, politicians, police chiefs, and other administrators want their city to look and feel safe. When small time crime invades the community, it can turn into a bigger crime and the fall of the city. The theory was experimented with in many cities with positive and negative results. Police patrol, emergency and critical incident response, police investigations, and future trends were affected in many communities. …show more content…
Administrative and operation considerations were evaluated after placing police on designated foot patrols. Patrol officers on foot had positive and bad negative. The positive outcomes were the intimate relations ship the police acquired with the public. The public got used to a police officer coming into the shops and greeted them informally, compared to just driving by and only reporting after a crime was committed. The foot patrol officers made a pleasant presence I the community that made the public believe crime was reduced. The negative outcomes with foot patrols were the delayed response to calls and lack of contact with the department. The same was true with emergency and critical incident response (NA, …show more content…
William Bratton of New York’s Transit Police by having police enforces petty crime laws and arrest transients, vandals, panhandlers, and fair jumpers. Rudy Giuliano worked with Bratton years later and implemented the Broken Windows Theory and crime was reduced by 65 percent in the mid-90s (Sahm, 2007). The theory has been modified for police and the administration with Stop and Frisk Laws and other privacy violation laws. This means that even though the theory was intended to beautify communities and become more community oriented in policing, it went in other directions.
Words like community-policing and zero tolerance has the roots of the Broken Windows Theory, but the future may hold more serious punishment for smaller crimes and more police presence in low-income communities. The primary theory was that if there is one broken window in building, youths, or vandals will break other windows, whereas a building with no broken windows would not receive the attention the latter would. Administrations and operational considerations have improved the idea, and in the future, reconstruct how crime is dealt with and how police can protect and serve the community