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Title: Police in America


1
Police in America
  • Chapter Six
  • The Police and Crime

2
Crime Control Strategies
  • Proactive versus reactive
  • General versus specific
  • Particular Crimes
  • Specific Places
  • Specific Offenders
  • Specific Victims

3
Crime fighting responsibilities
  • Preventing crime
  • Patrol
  • Deterrence value
  • Formal crime prevention programs
  • Security improvement, target hardening
  • Community Policing
  • Citizens are co-producers of police services
  • Apprehend criminals
  • Citizen reports
  • Police officer on-view observations
  • Police-initiated investigations
  • Unfounding crime
  • Civil not criminal
  • Insufficient evidence
  • Abuse discretion

4
Criminal Investigation
  • Preliminary Investigation
  • Identify and arrest suspect
  • Provide aid to victims
  • Secure crime scene
  • Collect physical evidence
  • Prepare preliminary report

5
Criminal Investigation
  • Follow up
  • Interviews witnesses
  • Canvass crime scene
  • Discussing the case with patrol officers
  • Interviewing suspects
  • Check records and NCIC files
  • Effectiveness
  • Clearance
  • Arrest
  • Eye witness identification
  • Criminalistics
  • Case screening
  • Scientific selection of cases based on solvability

6
Special Investigations
  • Undercover
  • Deliberate deception
  • Associates with criminals
  • Less supervision
  • Drugs
  • Buy and bust
  • Trading up
  • Long-term undercover
  • Drug crackdown
  • Drugs
  • Demand reduction strategy
  • DARE
  • SMART-Oakland
  • Gangs
  • Gang suppression
  • GREAT
  • Guns
  • Hate Crimes
  • School Crime
  • Terrorism
  • Computer crime

7
African Americans and drug possession
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