Problem Oriented Policing

Florida is a shall issue state which translates to easier access of obtaining a concealed permit in comparison to a may issue state. Unrestricted states provide the easiest access but only Vermont follows this protocol. Just because a state issues legal concealed permits does not mean the state will give the permits to everyone who satisfies conceal carry requirements (as in the case of may issue states). Another component of reducing the crime rate has been the improvement of policing methodology.
Firstly, increasing the number of police personnel is considered a major argument for decreasing the crime rate. A report prepared for the United States Congress expressed “the more police a city has, the less crime it will have” (Sherman, Gottfredson, MacKenzie, Eck, Reuter, & Bushway). Furthermore: the claim that police prevent crime is not a ‘theory’ in a truly scientific sense. The idea was developed not as a mathematical equation but as a general ‘doctrine’ of public policy in the heat of democratic debate. The doctrine was based not just speculation, but also on the apparent results of several ‘demonstration projects’ with some empirical results… As the level of violence
Problem-oriented policing takes an umbrella approach: “the more accurately police can identify and minimize proximate causes of specific patterns of crime, the less crime there will be” (Sherman et al.). Police have several strategies to implement this plan. The major strategy used is preventing crime by keeping victims and offenders separated. In order to effectively execute this strategy, police must keep “criminal events from combining: the more police can reduce the intersection of motivated offenders in time and space with suitable targets of crime, the less crime there will be” (Sherman et al.). For discussion purposes, proactive arrests and problem-oriented policing will combined into one