AHSS 1160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Predictive Policing, Problem Solving, Clearance Rate
31 Jul 2018
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Explain the preventive, reactive, and proactive styles of policing. Describe the problems with the reactive style of policing. Understand the broken windows model and why it became popular. Patrol is the dominant practice of policing: preventive patrols deter crime, reactive patrols respond to crime after it has occurred, proactive patrols collect information to better understand (and prevent) crime. Incident-based policing based on random patrol, rapid response, and reactive investigation. Associated with the professional model of policing: patrol officers in marked patrol cars. Rapid response facilitated by technology: measures of success and efficiency: Patrol officers collect information, provide assistance, and may arrest suspects: follow-up investigation. Police had a lack of knowledge about local communities. Patrols did not dispel citizens" fear of crime. Alternative forms of police patrols: foot patrol. Decreased fear of crime and increased perceptions of public safety: directed patrol. Focus is on collection and analysis of information to inform crime control measures.
