Centervale Police Patrol

Smithville's city council's planed changes to the police force is based upon some faulty assumptions. The plan involve investing in more police officers, extending opportunities for overtime, and encouraging deployment of patrols to walk the streets. The council's desire for these changes is to increase the vissibility of the police with the view that an increased vissibility will lower the crime rate and make the citizens of Smithville feel safer.

This study tested the impact of increased foot patrol on crime in Newark between February 1978 and January 1979. The program included several requirements stipulated by its use of Safe and Clean Neighborhoods Program funds. Foot patrol officers were required to remain in uniform and on foot, except when traveling to and from their posts, or when assisting a motor patrol officer in an emergency or arrest situation. All officers were required to be visible on

Policing is a very difficult, complex and dynamic field of endeavor that is always evolves as hard lessons teach us what we need to know about what works and what don’t work. There are three different Era’s in America’s policing: The Political Era, The Reform Era, and The Community Problem Solving Era. A lot has changed in the way that policing works over the years in the United States.

An examination of the patrol officer’s jobs and duties took place. The gathering of information and interviewing a seasoned patrol offer assisted in this examination. The city in which the patrol officer works is also studied. Research of the city of Hueytown’s population and history helped to understand the demographics and crime within the city. While Hueytown’s violent crimes are low, thefts and burglaries rank the highest. Communities, including the city of Hueytown, place patrol officers on the streets in order to protect and serve. Officer Louis Phillips, Jr. gave an interview that takes an in depth look at his journey as a patrol officer.

Kansas City prevention was a patrol experiment; (preventative patrolling). The results of police patrolling in high crime areas did not lessen criminal activity, however the reduction of police patrolling did not result in increased criminal activity. This research shined a new light on policing and helped pave the way for future community policing.

If I was the Chief of Police, at Kansas City Police Department at the time of the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment in 1972; my preventive patrol versus random patrol strategies would be based on the idea that visible police presence would target the "hot spots" in an area with unmarked units wearing plain clothes. My officers would provide a general deterrent effect on crime, and that same police presence would reduce the general public's fear of crime. However, my officers will be using unmarked units and wearing plain clothes to form a relationship with the public. It is through directed patrols dosage in specific zones or hot spots, and through the use of strategically defined objectives during patrol activities, that the effectiveness

Since the beginning of police work in America, the system has changed from disorganized chaos into a well structured and rather complex network of communication, response efforts, and detection of lawless behavior. From the creation of the town watch to the transformation of the first police force in the colonies to the lawlessness of the old west and the efforts to revive efficient police work, America has been ever advancing its protection of those who live in the White House, the suburbs, the slums, and even those struggling on the streets. The History of Policing in America is not derived from one origin of time but rather taking the highest qualities of protection from within itself and countries of both friend and foe.

Reactive patrols and proactive patrols are mainstays of American police agencies. Reactive patrols provide the required rapid law enforcement response to citizen requests for assistance and other emergencies. Meanwhile, proactive patrols provide the necessary planning and allocation of police resources to effectively respond to specific, ongoing problems such as "white collar crime" and the "victimless crimes" of drug transactions behind closed doors. Careful examinations of each patrol type and the effects of using exclusively reactive patrols or exclusively proactive patrols show that a balanced approach using both types of patrols gives the best law enforcement response to the needs of the community.

The Kansas City Preventive Patrol - the center point is on the operational behavior of the patrol force during the experiment and not on before-and-after crime statistic. Models are employed to estimate the amount of preventive patrols and response times in each of the experimental areas. These models, together with experimental data, demonstrate that: typical patrol intensities in Kansas City are not large enough to encompass the range of patrol intensities experienced in other cities, and patrol visibility in the empty areas due to answered calls for service is quite more, perhaps even equaling the pre-experimental levels during high workload periods. Some models also demonstrate that travel distances into the reactive beats should not be markedly increased, as the researchers had expected(Lawson, 1975).

The manner in which police departments across the United States choose to conduct patrol of their cities varies greatly. Although crime trends vary in regards to place and time there are various ways to structure patrol so that it is more effective and efficient for departments. This is ultimately reflected in safer neighborhoods characterized by having a strong citizen perception of police legitimacy. While patrol has been the cornerstone of policing in the United States, as it is the main approach of providing police resources to communities, recent research has made agencies across the nation aware of shortfalls associated with traditional methods of patrol (Sherman & Weisburd, 1995). Activities patrol officers partake in during their shifts

To illustrate, the east police district operated as the test group for the pilot project. The number of first-line supervisors in the east district was doubled, while the sergeants in the other districts remained the same. For this purpose, the pilot project measured the importance of the time patrol officers spent on 911 calls (burglaries, robberies, and crimes against persons) and the amount of self-initiated activity (suspicious activity, foot patrols and public relations) conducted in addition to the effect of employing a sufficient amount of patrol supervisors per

Mohler does not intend that the hot spot program predict crimes but rather “make patrols more efficient” (Thompson, 2011), an element that grows increasingly important as the SCPD and other police departments face shrinking budgets. Supports of PredPol consider the program a success; in Santa Cruz, the SCPD reported assaults, burglaries and robberies falling by 9%, 11% and 27% respectively in the first year (Bachner, 2013).

Table 5.5 explains each goals and objectives corresponding to each division within the COP unit. The measure of effectiveness assesses the performance needed for each division to perform their task in accomplishing the objectives. The data above recreated the 5 precincts that will partake in this pilot program to generate the reasoning for community policing. Based on the five-year crime rate provided by CompStat reporting corresponding to the total population of the precinct confinement, the average crime rate is above the total’s city crime rate, which is reported for 8 million residents an average of 15.58% per 1,000. Looking at the 5-year average of crime index of a population per 1,000, the average is equal or above the city’s population.

Patrol officers have always been at the forefront of police departments in the United States and their technology is constantly being improved. The most effective type of community policing which deters crime and establishes a presence of officers in a community (Petty, 2005). In his article Petty explains the different types of patrol performed by most police officers in the United States today. The most effective tool to an officer on patrol, having the ability to provide cover in a firefight, they have in car computers that officers can use to identify people in traffic stops, the car lets an office keep up with fleeing suspects in high speed chases, and give the officer a wider range for his radio in case the

Crime is a complicated study that police forces have engaged in more in recent decades to determine the best methods for managing its occurrence. Methods of management run the gamut from old fashioned relational policing in which the officer gets to know a certain group of people intimately by walking a prescribed route through neighborhoods, to the much more modern idea of containing crime by using different technological and scientific methods. The main issue with the different modes of crime management is that they are all effective to a certain degree, but it is difficult to determine to what extent. There have been studies conducted to see what is the most effective means of minimizing crime, but the general finding is that it is largely dependent on time and location. No one method has been gauged to be completely successful, so it is difficult to know which one to use.