CJUS 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Foster Care, Intimate Partner Violence, Domestic Disturbance
5 Dec 2017
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Many police officers regard order maintenance calls as social work. Four different ways that noncrime calls for service can help improve police effectiveness in dealing with crime. Police intervention can defuse potentially violent situations. Police intervention can prevent escalation into criminal violence. Gives officers broader exposure to the community. Provides more knowledge to help solve crimes. Informal handling of situations with no official action many calls for service do. Used when calling the police in order to divert attention away from his or her own behavior. People frequently call the police for emergency services: missing children, medical crisis, suicide attempts, being locked out of their car or home, so on. Police departments and citizens influence traffic enforcement policy complaints of. Source of friction between the police and citizens speeding, etc. Risk of arrest for drunk driving is low. Disturbance between two or more people engaged in an intimate relationship that.
