Summary: Tupelo Police Department

The Kansas City preventive patrol experiment was a landmark experiment carried out between 1972 and 1973 by the Kansas City Police Department of Kansas City, Missouri. It was designed to test the assumption that the presence (or potential presence) of police officers in marked cars reduced the likelihood of a crime being committed. It was the first study to demonstrate that research into the effectiveness of different policing styles could be carried out responsibly and safely. The Kansas City Police Department drew the conclusion that routine preventive patrol in marked police cars has little value in preventing crime or making citizens feel safe and that resources normally allocated to these activities could safely be allocated elsewhere. A significant factor realized was that crime prevention was more highly dependent on the willingness of citizens to report suspicious and/or criminal behavior to Police than the levels or types of patrol.

A survey was conducted which consist of ten questions. Each question of this survey deals with policing in America, weather it is the area in which you encountered officers to how your encounter was with them. 54 individuals of different races and ages took this survey. The survey was structured in a way to see if there is a connection between the old policing and the new age policing. In this survey, the participants must answer all the questions to the best of their ability. The participants included college student and non- college that ranged from the ages 17 and above. The participants were family, friends, and college students. This population of individuals was targeted so that the surveys’ outcome would have opinions from all

The sample of patrol officers will then be assigned subgroups on the amount of time they have worked in patrol. This research will be comparing the secondary data for the two years prior to body-worn cameras and the two years after body-worn cameras. Because of the time frame being studied, officers with less than four years of patrol experience will not be examined. This allows officers to be assigned to subgroups of years in patrol by four year groupings. For example, 4-8 years, 9-13 years, 14-17 years. These groups will continue to the 30 year retirement standard in North Carolina law enforcement. The officers in the patrol division will be placed in a subgroup. The random sampling drawn from the patrol division will be proportionate to the makeup of the subgroups. This proportional stratified sampling will provide the most accurate depiction of proactive policing of patrol officers equipped with body-worn

How did the Kansas City Patrol Study affect routine patrol all across the nation? It affected routine patrol in the fact that It made officers realize that traditional routine patrol in marked police cars did not appear to affect the level of crime. Nor did it affect the public’s feeling of security. The experiment demonstrated that urban police departments can successfully test patrol deployment strategies, and that they can manipulate patrol resources without jeopardizing public safety.

Prior to the 1970’s, law enforcement agencies were completely unaware of how effective their methods of policing and patrolling truly were, if they were even effective at all. After questioning the efficiency of their methods for so long, the Kansas City Police Department decided to conduct an experiment on preventative patrol. This experiment focused on four main questions-- would the public notice, would visible police affect crime, would the citizens’ fear of crime diminish, and would police satisfaction change. Although preventative patrol has the aspects of a powerful policing method, this landmark experiment may have produced some interesting and thought provoking results on the topic.

Just like any other organization policing is looking to be the most effect and efficient while also maintaining its duties to protect and serve. There are many organizations that are interested in researching how policing can be improved and made to be the best. While some organizations rely on self-reporting type of surveys others are based strictly on the facts and evidence. Below are three different organizations that are all trying to improve policing but each take a slightly different approach at doing so.

In 1972, the Kansas City Police Department launched an experiment to find out the effectiveness of police patrols in their community. Their Police Foundation tabulated the results of the year-long experiment to find that police patrols were not effective in decreasing crime (Kansas City Preventative Control Experiment, 2014). Fifteen patrol beats participated in the study with the patrols labeled one of three categories: reactive, control, and proactive. The experiment, besides concluding the patrols were not effective in quashing crime, the police department discovered that the public did not even pay attention to the police patrols so the police department surmised that what they did would not harm the general public (Kansas City Preventative

289). The study was conducted with the assistance of the Cleveland Division of Police in Cleveland, Ohio. The locations that the study was going to observe had to meet certain criteria that they had decided previously. This set of criteria was established to ensure that the study was both safe for observers and gathered valid data from a large enough sample of the population. The criteria for observation locations

My goal for this assignment is to conduct research on how being in the field affects an officer’s life both professionally and personally. This article should allow both professionals as well as individuals to get an idea as to what it’s like to a police officer. Police officers dedicate their lives to not only protecting but also representing their city, town or community with the protection they provide. Their main goal is to protect the citizens from danger as well as prevent crime. Within the article, I will explain how being in a field officer can have multiple affects

Nevertheless, my data gathering plan is to collect data from the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Department deputies by scheduling an interview with several deputies to obtain the following survey questions:

Preventive patrol is one of the best ways to get involved with the neighborhoods that the law enforcement is trying to protect, it is however a double edge sword while patrolling in a vehicle police can cover more ground and can witness more violations, but miss the opportunity to make relationships with the members of the community (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.) The foot patrol option allows for less ground to be covered, but the police are making personal connections and getting to know the area reducing the fear of crime scenarios while improving attitudes towards the police in the eyes of the community (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.) A study completed in Kansas City, Missouri, from the 1970s split three areas giving one area received

The Journal of Quantitative Criminology distributes papers that are pertinent to the criminology community that explore various criminology subjects. In an effort to improve relations between police and the public whom which they are sworn to protect and serve, Chief of the Rialto (CA) Police Department, Tony Farrar published a scientific study in the Journal of Quantitative Criminology. The field studies performed by Chief Farar and his colleagues Dr. Arial Barak and Dr. Alex Sutherland, both of Cambridge University received international awards, recognition and praise for the abundance of data collected from the effects of body-worn cameras worn by police.

When conducting a research study, it is often necessary to utilize data sampling because it is rarely possible to conduct an empirical analysis on the entire population under study. Explain the various types of sampling and why they are an important part of many research projects. Your discussion of sampling should involve a discussion of probability theory and probability sampling techniques; non-probability sampling techniques; and an overview of the strengths and weaknesses of each technique discussed. Finally, use examples of sampling strategies/data collection efforts relevant to criminology and criminal justice to support your response(s).

The goals of this paper is to show how the mission of community policing can drive all aspects of training, therefore training becoming the key to promoting the shift to community policing. This requires analyzing aspects of training to ensure they promote the mission of Community Policing, which provides decentralized and personalized police service that empowers the community to participate in the process of making the neighborhood better and safer.

In more recent times, researchers have studied and analyzed methodical social observations of 638 officers in two policing departments, discovering that officers with more education were less expected to use force. (Webb, 2008)