Example Of POP Report

Pittsburgh is experiencing a reoccurrence of violent crimes. In 2010, Pittsburgh implemented a crime prevention program called “ Pittsburgh Initiative to Reduce Crime” (PIRC) and in the past five years more than $1 million has been put into a faded program. A strategy that police didn’t buy into the program with an unclear with the effectiveness of the program working. David Kennedy, a director at the Center, developed the program model for Crime Prevention and Control at City University of New York’s John Jay College of criminal justice stated that, “PIRC was never remotely properly implemented” (Kerlik, 2015). As the coordinator of PIRC, Jay Gilmer stated that, “it does work, and it will work. It’s just getting

Recent studies have illustrated the notion that relatively few offenders and locations are actually involved in crime, and that a small number of victims account for a large number of victimization. Based on this information, the police along with the community have determined that problems relating to crime can be most effectively resolved by analyzing repetitive crime patterns, such as repeat locations and offenders. Following their research, the police use the information they have gathered about these “hot spots”, along with any additional information they may have received from the community, and work together with those in their community in order to determine the reasoning behind a problem and the best solution for resolving it.

When an area has been identified as a “hot spot” law enforcement has a multitude of options to begin the corrective steps in the area. An experiment conducted in 2012 in Jacksonville, Florida by Bruce G. Taylor, Christopher S. Koper, and Daniel J. Wood was the first study to compare different hot spot enforcements techniques or applications in one study. One hot spot area received a more standard heavy presence of marked patrol cars otherwise known as a saturation detail and the other area was exposed to a problem-oriented policing technique

Due to these apparent successes, the problem-focused approach has been used to address a diverse array of problems such as gangs, drugs, school crime and the management of police call for service in urban, suburban and even rural communities. The exploration of possible responses to a problem is handled by police officers. Once a problem is identified, officers are expected to work closely with the community members to develop a solution, which can include a wide range of alternatives to arrest. These may focus on the offender, the community, the environment, outside agencies, or the need for some kind of mediation. Problem-oriented policing grew out of twenty years of research into police practices, and differs from traditional policing strategies in many significant ways. For example, problem-oriented policing enables police agencies to be more effective. Currently, police agencies commit most of their time to responding to calls for service. Problem-oriented policing offers a more effective strategy by addressing the

By primarily focusing in these hotspots, the authors felt that law enforcement may be able to reduce total crime. The authors also suggest problem-orientated policing also reduce crime compared to traditional policing.

The basic research methods and data analysis is the foundation in policing. Although they do not stop or eliminate crime, it gives the agency data to identify problem areas. This information is vital when gathering data for crime statistics in areas where the crime rate is high. There are certain questions that law enforcement agency must ask when they are attempting to identify problem areas (Blevins, 2013). Police departments have to address the issues and must answer specific questions that are geared toward the five W’s which include who, what, why, when, and where. These questions stem from what type of crimes are being committed? Who are the crimes being against and who are committing the crime? What is known about the people committing

Operation Safe Streets is a hotspots strategy where placing pairs of police officers on high drug activity street corners 24 hours a day seven days a week. This study analyzed weekly counts of drug crimes, homicides and violent crimes at 214 different locations for a period of two years prior to the intervention. It also examines trends for these crimes at 73 matched comparison sites that did not receive any intervention. This operation had a significant impact on both drug and violent crimes with 0.1 miles of the treatment areas. There was also some diffusion of crime control benefits to areas surrounding the locations but at 0.1 to 0.2 miles from the intervention site the results are smaller. While the intervention produced benefits to specific

Crime is all around us, but, unlike the general public, we encounter it daily as members of the law enforcement community. Our job is to do our best in preventing crime and catching the offenders that slip through our crime prevention methods. The following questions often come up: Are our current methods the best? If not, how can we better improve our practices to eradicate crime and catch the offenders? Police strategies are, inherently, reactive, but, recently, the law enforcement community has started to develop more proactive strategies to more efficiently eradicate crime (Groff et al. 2014, pg.23). Among these proactive police strategies is a rather recent practice called hot-spot policing (Groff et al. 2014, pg.23). There are many

The problem with using and developing hot spots is the complexity of crime. “Taylor suggests that hot-spot-based strategies, in general, have produced minimal impacts on crime and these impacts are typically only achieved for the short term” (Paynich & Hill, 2013, p. 193). This is only partially true. Social order crimes such as drugs, prostitution, public drunkenness, loitering, disorderly conduct, and others typically take place in the same locations over and over. A plan using hot spots, developed with a combination of officer knowledge and crime analysis, could drastically reduce those crimes over a long term. Hot spots could also be useful in identifying and capturing a serial rapist. However developing hot spots for crimes

Problem-orientated policing is based strongly upon situations that are perceived as leading to the criminal activity. Problem-orientated policing first came about back in 1979 by Herman Goldstein where he published an article and thus laid out a new style of policing he called problem-oriented policing, according to Goldstein this new style of policing was revolutionary and showed a change in the way police operate (Goldstein, 1979). In problem-orientated policing as it became more popular the police came up with a four stage for the problem-solving process know as SARA, Scanning, Analysis, Response, and Evaluation Model. Step 1 is identifying the

Hot Spot policing is highly effective, and many police leaders use the term to describe their policing strategy (Telep and Weisburd,

Problem-oriented policing presents an alternative approach to policing that has gained attention in recent years among many police agencies. Problem-oriented policing grew out of twenty years of research into police practices, and differs from traditional policing strategies in four significant ways.

XXXXXXXXX Exploratory Report Stake-Holders: People/Entities The conflict of the Ground Zero mosque has become one of the fiercest religious based debates in recent years. One of the most influential men in the debate is Feisal Abdul Rauf. Rauf is the Imam (leader in prayer) at the current New York City mosque just a few blocks away from the proposed location of the future mosque. He has put a lot of time and money into this proposed mosque and does not plan to give up on it. Another key person in this issue is Sharif El-Gamal, the CEO of Soho Properties. Soho Properties is the company who purchased the lot where they plan to build the mosque, and who is overseeing the hiring and funding to complete the project. Sharif and Feisal have been

"Although this is an idealized model for which all parameters must be known precisely in advance in order to make predictions, we believe this is an important step in understanding why some crime hotspots are merely displaced while others are actually removed by hotspot policing,"

Placing police in locations such as crime hot spots will help to reduce the violent and drug related crimes in the area. This is because officers are monitoring and directly intervening in these kinds of activities. For these areas, the