criminal justice
Police Organization & Management POL120
Chapter 2
1. Define community policing
Community policing is when police officers are more in contact with the people that live in the community they patrol. For instance, the police officer may start conversation and become friends with the local storeowner in order to create trust and gather information that can later lead to an arrest. Community policing fostered five elements, which are commitment to crime prevention, public scrutiny of the police, accountability of police actions to the public, customized police service, and community organization.
3. Identify the problems commonly associated with traditional policing
Some police advocates refer to it as a system of response. It is reactive and incident driven rather than proactive and preventative. Also random patrol is not successful in lowering crime nor increases the probability of a suspect being caught. Crime prevention is achieved through mere police presence. Negative interaction between the community and police is generally the norm.
7. Define some of today’s new police strategies, such as hot spots policing, intelligence-led policing (ILP), and predictive policing.
Hot spot policing is geographic based and present’s a strong supported police practice in the United States today. It is when more officers are dispatched in a certain area because the crime rate is high. A map is necessary and on the map, there are colored dots on the area that has the most crime rates. Intelligence led policing is another police strategy being looked at because it provides an alternative when there is little resources. It arose from the 911 terrorist attacks and it focuses on offenders rather than crime incidents. It uses crime analysis to prevent crimes. Predictive policing is when an officer predicts that an offense is going to be committed before it happens.
10. What has been the impact of information technologies on the police?
Information technologies
Chapter 2
1. Define community policing
Community policing is when police officers are more in contact with the people that live in the community they patrol. For instance, the police officer may start conversation and become friends with the local storeowner in order to create trust and gather information that can later lead to an arrest. Community policing fostered five elements, which are commitment to crime prevention, public scrutiny of the police, accountability of police actions to the public, customized police service, and community organization.
3. Identify the problems commonly associated with traditional policing
Some police advocates refer to it as a system of response. It is reactive and incident driven rather than proactive and preventative. Also random patrol is not successful in lowering crime nor increases the probability of a suspect being caught. Crime prevention is achieved through mere police presence. Negative interaction between the community and police is generally the norm.
7. Define some of today’s new police strategies, such as hot spots policing, intelligence-led policing (ILP), and predictive policing.
Hot spot policing is geographic based and present’s a strong supported police practice in the United States today. It is when more officers are dispatched in a certain area because the crime rate is high. A map is necessary and on the map, there are colored dots on the area that has the most crime rates. Intelligence led policing is another police strategy being looked at because it provides an alternative when there is little resources. It arose from the 911 terrorist attacks and it focuses on offenders rather than crime incidents. It uses crime analysis to prevent crimes. Predictive policing is when an officer predicts that an offense is going to be committed before it happens.
10. What has been the impact of information technologies on the police?
Information technologies