Explain the relationship between private and public police. Is this relationship positive or negative? Provide specific examples to support your opinion. Discuss how the conflict regarding the definition of public and private space influences the relationship between private and public police. Suggest ways this relationship can be maintained or improved.
A number of researchers have argued that many crime problems can be addressed more efficiently if police officers focus their attention on these deviant places. The appeal of focusing limited resources on a small number of high-activity crime places is straightforward. If crime can be prevented at these problem places, then police will be well positioned to lower citywide crime rates. In Policing Problem Places, Anthony Braga and David Weisburd make the case that hot spots policing is an effective approach to crime prevention that should be engaged by police departments in the United States and other countries. There is a strong and growing body of rigorous scientific evidence that the police can control crime hot spots without simply displacing crime problems to other places.
While theft and low income consumers bring the possibility of providing only moderate revenue gains, if not a loss, operating in impoverished areas can also be a source of growing potential for the business. Many companies advertise philanthropic missions, such as donating to charities every year or helping to provide for the families of their employees. While these are messages that consumers hear, a more powerful message can be the one that the consumers themselves see. Rather than closing down those stores, Company Q should focus on the reasons for the high crime, and offer ways to reduce that crime rate. Offering work programs that help prepare young people for management or skilled positions is a good way to take crime off of the streets while showing to the community that the business cares about the welfare of the population.
This may just be a “sense” of safety, but officers like to think their partner has their back. In truth is could be safer to fight crime individually, because two police officers may seem to evoke the individuals with which they are involved with. Having two people looking out for the situation is extremely beneficial. If one officer is occupied with a task, her partner can be keeping a watchful eye on the surroundings and the circumstances that have a potential of arising. When all these factors are grouped together it appears that police partners would be more productive, writing more citations, and completing more arrests.
Although the system itself is fair and objective, people using them are not always so. In an attempt to show a lower crime rate, those in charge of maintaining these systems may manipulate the results to meet their agendas. You can report lower crime rate very easily, by “not filing reports, misclassify crimes from felonies to misdemeanors, under-value the property lost to crime so it’s not a felony, and report a series of crimes as a single
Proactive, or preventative, patrol is focused or targeted more on specific hot spots, crime problems, or offenders. The goal of proactive patrol is to detect crimes in progress and deter crime by having a routine police presence (Grant & Terry, 2008). There are a couple different downfalls to policing agencies using one form of patrol over the other. One downfall is that if only one of these patrol styles were adopted, the police would lose some of their discretion. Conditions of an officer’s reaction to certain responds would change (Grant & Terry, 2008).
We all decide d that police officers should have the ability to use force, but not in all situations. It is best said by John Anderson, “The difference between the quasi-military and the civilian police officer should never have enemies. Individuals may be criminals as well as, have a violent streak, but they are not enemies that should be ruined. Once that kind of language gets into the vocabulary, it begins to change attitudes.”(Anderson 1985). We as citizens of the United States ask the question is justice created equally and is justice for all?
Police departments are going to have to help the federal government with regards to guarding the borders and there will be changes in the duties that city, county, and state police officers have. I feel that as we continue to change, the policing style is going to continue to grow and community-oriented policing is going to flourish. Utilizing community-oriented policing will be for the benefit of the community and the police department. There is no community that has enough officers on duty all the time. Using community members and community programs will help the police in times that something is going on, but it is not necessarily an emergency.
Policy Process Paper The public counts on the criminal justice system to keep them safe from harm and to maintain order in our society. The criminal justice system is expected to separate the guilty from the innocent and to meet the basic aims of our laws. It must meet the need to put the truly dangerous individuals out of action. The criminal justice system is expected to promote retribution and deterrence for criminals. The public “expect the criminal justice system and criminal law to be fair” (American Bar Association, n.d., para.1) in their punishment and judgment of those accused of crimes.
Treating youth offenders at the community level with education is a more effective way to reduce violent crime. II. Current legislation about youth and violent crime focuses on jailing gang members, but this is not the root cause. Show visual aid (Greene & Pranis, 2007).