Society would be a safer place if security cameras were placed in public areas to oversee peoples potentially illegal behavior. Cameras are used all over the world by companies to watch for illegal behavior to prevent theft and other threatening crimes commonly seen stores. They are even used in school hallways and buses to watch students behavior on school property. However, cameras are not used enough for monitoring peoples behavior. Many crimes occur without video evidence to help ensure that the crime does not go unpunished.
The neighborhood watch program has brought us closer as a unit and is helping us achieve the ultimate goal of one day being crime free. We chose to use a peacemaking design for our neighborhood watch. We realize that the citizens of our neighborhood are not law enforcement and we do not have the resources or training that our local law enforcement does. By ensuring that we offer a more nontraditional approach to retribution of the offenders, we have a lower percentage of reoccurring offenders. By dealing with the offenders through communication and education, we set ourselves apart from the local law enforcement.
Sitz has to do with the police having the right to have checkpoints to catch people drinking and driving. The court reasoned that checkpoints are designed to eliminate immediate hazards posed by intoxicated drivers. This ruling may not seem substantially important to policing at first glance, but I feel keeping the public safe is a top priority for the police. These checkpoints enable the police to temporarily detain people who are, at that moment, a very serious threat to the public. The checkpoints have probably saved thousands of lives and this would not be possible if the police could only check for intoxication after someone has violated the law.
The government should ensure that the police patrol more areas of the park to ensure that no sexual behaviour/intercourse is happening as if the police are more strict on this law individuals will eventually stop committing the crime. This will decrease the amount of condoms being on the floor, which decreases the chance of it imposing a risk towards a child. The second way of trying to minimize the risks caused by used condoms being on the floor is by the government installing CCTV cameras throughout several locations within the park recording faces and the individuals who are committing the crimes should be given community service if identified. The individuals who are given community service should be given the duty of cleaning the parks and ensuring that all condoms located within the park and disposed of and are not within the presence of children.
Baltimore Police Strike 1974 The police of a city are probably some of the most important people living in that city, and many people do not take them for granted. The police keep us safe, safe from any kind of trouble that we might do to others or others do to us. The reason why cities have police departments is for the sole purpose of keeping the people of the city safe and in line. A place without any kind of authority would be chaos. So police keep the balance in the cities as much as they can.
Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Criminology Question 1 UCR’s key objective is to give adequate crime data for law enforcement operation, management, and objective. NCVS’ key objective is to give previously unavailable data on offenders, victims, and crime. Limitations of UCR It does not reflect later arbitration. UCR reports less crime data because not every state demands data from municipalities. Limitations of NCVS Its data is hierarchical.
The officers and management team should be held accountable for the actions that they did not take to help the victim. However, commanders wanted the numbers to decrease to show that implementing this system could reduce crimes. The crime should have reported properly and actions should have been taken. The commanders in the situation should make sure that officers understand the importance of protecting and serving their districts and helping citizens feel safe in their neighborhoods. Instead of staying in a darkened room, the commanders should be training their officers on how to combat this action and help actual reduce the crimes not cover them up.
The statistics show that the fear of the public having guns makes it hard for criminals to know when to commit their crime. The fact of the matter is, you cannot stop all crime whether you'll low guns or not, but the goal is to lessen the crime rates and keep the public safe. When a citizen knows that a gun is by their side bin case they need to use it for protection it puts their mind at ease. Crime has dropped as the law has raised and there is a definite reason to that, and that is the criminals are just as scared of guns as we are. A crime prevention officer said “When you allow people to carry concealed handguns, you see changes in the behavior of criminals.
Past and present trends can be used as a learning tool to deter future trends from being the same as prior trends. Having people get more involved with what is going on around him or her and getting serious about making changes so he or she does not fall victim to any type of crime. People taking stand and alerting the police whenever a crime is occurring, is the way for the criminal justice system to step and take control of the situation. “Long-term trends in other violent crimes are difficult to discern because the only measure available before the 1970s was crime reported and recorded by the police. By this measure, rates of violent crime generally – not just homicide but also rape, robbery, and assault, both simple and aggravated – appeared to increase during the 1960s, continuing upwards until turning downwards in the mid – 1990s (see figure 3, p. 7)” (McDonald & Finn, 2000, p. 6).
Criminal Justice Trends CW CJA/394 April 23rd 2012 Criminal Justice Trends Throughout centuries society world relies upon policing within communities to help protect the citizens. There was a time when citizens could walk the streets in the dark, sit on their front porch with their children, and sleep in their beds without fear. However, as years went by crime levels went up along with the types of crimes criminals were committing. As crimes began to change the world society lives in, this also began the change how policing is done within the criminal justice world as well. It is my intention in this paper to explain how the past, present, and future trends play an important role between the criminal justice system and its interactions