CRJ 350 Lecture 5: CRJ 350 Notes Chapter 5
6 Oct 2016
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Conservatives: by getting tough there will be a reduction in serious crime. Placing more cops on the streets does not reduce crime. But important innovations in smarter policing hold promise for greater crime reductions: these include community-oriented, problem- oriented, and zero-tolerance policing. More police appeals to both whites and african americans due to the belief that patrol deters crime. The questions we need to consider are whether adding more cops increases the deterrent effect and whether different police strategies improve crime-fighting. The standard measure of the level of police protection is number of officers per 1,000 people, varies enormously across states with widely divergent crime rates. Police/population ratio is meaningless, since it doesn"t tell us how officers are utilized. The important question is what police do when on the street; adding more cops to an inefficient department is just throwing money at the problem. Studies have found mixed results regarding correlations between the number of police and crime rate.
