Police Foundations LAW250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Community Policing, Crime Prevention, Environmental Design
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POLICE FOUNDATIONS-LAW250
LECTURE 1
Crime Prevention and Community Policing
Community policing:
• Build relationships
• Partnership
• Community involvement
• Building bridges
• Transparency
• Accountability
• Police services act
Proactive VS Reactive
Cause of crime vs the symptom of crime
Example: homeless people
• Sleep in doorways and ATMs
• Beg for money
• Urinate and defecate outside
• Leave garbage
• Lower property values
• Stop people from using businesses where they frequent sleep
What can be done?
• Build relationships and partnerships with the community
• Quality of life issues
• Crime prevention programs to reduce crime
• Problem oriented policing
• Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED)
• Scanning, analysis, response, assessment (SARA)
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