The Police in the Community Chapter 15

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The Police in the CommunityChapter 15

• What Research Tells Us and a Look at the Future

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Introduction

• Community Police should now be a word that is
  pretty much old hat to everyone in this room.
  Federal dollars are still flowing into the police
  departments in hopes of new ideas and new
  programs that are effective. To know what is in
  fact effective we have to conduct research that
  is valid by using reliable information and
  surveys.

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What do we do?

• Group 1 2 will bring us problems and solutions
  to the community on March 7th and 12th for
  shoplifting and prostitution.

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How Effective Can we be?

• Again it is up the the police departments and the
  type of government that exists
• Do they want a proactive community police
  department?
• Do they want a traditional police department?

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Surveys

• In order to utilize the data from any surveys
  that might help for future programs or to assess
  the current programs there must be a response
  from at least 60 of the respondents
• The best way to conduct a survey is to telephone
  the potential person in advance and alert them of
  an upcoming interview and tell them the purpose

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Difference in Structure of Traditional and
Community Police Departments

• Traditional Departments
• Have much more rigid organization
• More centralized decision making (Chief makes the
  decisions)
• More dense administration (More brass at the top
• Community Departments
• Believe in less management
• Favor participation of the street officers in
  developing a strategic plan

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Evaluation of the COPS Program

• The program did not reach its goal of putting
  100,000 new officers on the street
• More like 69,000 to 84,000
• However it was very effective because the funding
  has gone to the high crime areas

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What Works?

• We know that increased directed patrols in
  street-corner hot spots works
• Proactive arrests of serious repeat offenders
• Proactive drunk driving arrests
• Arrests of employed suspects of domestic assault

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What Works Cont.

• For infants- Frequent home visits by nurses and
  other professionals
• For Preschoolers- Classes with weekly home visits
  by preschool teachers

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What Works Cont.

• For delinquents- Family therapy and parent
  training
• For older male ex-offenders- Vocational Training
• For rental housing with drugs- Landlord abatement
  of offenders
• For high risk repeat offenders- Monitoring by
  special police units or incarceration
• For convicted offenders- Rehabilitation programs

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What Does Not Work?

• Neighborhood block watch programs
• Arrests of some juveniles for minor offenses
• Arrests of unemployed suspects for domestic
  assault
• Drug market arrests

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What Does Not Work Cont..

• Gun buy back programs
• Police counseling visits to homes days after an
  incident
• Counseling and peer counseling of students in
  school
• Shock probation is ineffective
• Many rehabilitation programs

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Whats Promising?

• Police traffic patrols against illegally carried
  handguns
• Community policing with community participation
• Zero tolerance of disorder
• Gang monitoring
• Community after school recreation programs

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The Future ?

• Community Policing will be shaped by 4 factors
• Privatization
• Restructuring of government
• Any future group violence based on race, class,
  or ethnic
• And growth in destructive criminal violence in
  regards to terrorism and organized crime

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The End
Finally you have completed this course.
Congratulations!