Police Crime Control Strategies

Police Crime Control Strategies

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If you ONLY do the minimum word count, then it is considered “average” work, which is a “C”; therefore, it is best to make sure you cover the topics well and not just do enough to meet the minimum number of words.

1. You are the police chief of a jurisdiction in a state that recently passed a law in response to concerns about possible racial profiling that requires police agencies to document the race and/or ethnicity of both pedestrians and vehicle occupants stopped for any reason. You know from the experience of other police agencies that the data will almost certainly indicate disproportionate stops of minorities. Prepare a press release that explains why you expect disproportionality in the data, and what you intend to do to distinguish inappropriate discrimination from disproportionality expected from legitimate deployment practices.

2.What range of interventions exists under the auspices of the approach to reducing youth gang violence called “lever pulling”?

3.What is meant by a crime-specific strategy? Of the types of specificity that are suggested, which might have the greatest import?

4.What is the role of community policing specialists in a Compstat approach to crime control? Should the role include leadership in initiating problem-oriented interventions?

Answer preview

Law enforcement uses various strategies in the effort to control crime.  The process of crime control is very political as it is challenged by other forces surrounding the strategies such as racial discrimination (Simon, 2017). This occurs as a result of the continued inequality between different racial groups. The minority find that the process is meant to pose discrimination. The crime control process in the US has historically considered the use of legislative measures but these strategies were found insufficient to control crime. The focus of the government in the current situation is on the reorganization of social groupings to prevent possible organizations that propagate illegal practices. The paper concentrates on some of the various crime control strategies that are commonly used.  The police Crime Control strategies are usually beyond the traditional methods of law enforcement officials responding to the call for services to increase the prevention to crime, its intervention the effectiveness of the response through the outreach to the community, distribution of resources efficiently, crime mapping, and collection of data on crime or suspect location so as to increase efficiency.

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