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. Reactive is reacting to the past rather than anticipating
the future. Proactive is acting before the situation becomes source of crises. Being proactive
means able to anticipate what the future will be, and to react accordingly before it actually
happens.
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
Ensure that everyone can afford and maintain housing stability. Ensure to keep them busy in
their community to keep them busy in their community. It also helps build relationships and
community safety if we know each other and communicate.
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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Document Summary
Community policing: build relationships, partnership, community involvement, building bridges, transparency, accountability, police services act. Cause of crime vs the symptom of crime. Reactive is reacting to the past rather than anticipating the future. Proactive is acting before the situation becomes source of crises. Being proactive means able to anticipate what the future will be, and to react accordingly before it actually happens. 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. Ensure that everyone can afford and maintain housing stability. Ensure to keep them busy in their community to keep them busy in their community. It also helps build relationships and community safety if we know each other and communicate.