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    2014) was initiated in 1994 by then New York City Commissioner William Bratton to address the high crime rate in New York City. Compstat goals center on reducing crime, enhancing arrest and community involvement. These trends has helped all law enforcement agents in their everyday work in combating crimes, and which at the same time makes each Police Officers be responsible and accountable for their roles as far as their profession is concern. The CompStat Process according to the (policechiefmagazine

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    Miscarriages of Justice

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    “It’s a general problem not specific to the law of the United Kingdom a criminal justice system characterized by an emphasis on crime control rather than due process will inevitably produce miscarriage of justice.” In an imaginary world the law would always give the correct results but in a real world it’s the other way. When they don’t which way do they tend to err? Which way do we want to err? We want the law to err on the side of acquitting guilty people rather than convicting

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    Community policing is a philosophy. It uses organizational strategies that support the use of partnerships and problem solving techniques to address issues of public safety.Community-oriented policing is collaboration between the community, organizations within the community, and the police that identify and solve community problems. Police officers work with the community to help solve problems related to crime, fear of crime, social and physical disorder, and neighborhood conditions. They do this

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    before it happens. The concept of community policing is to put control over the quality of the community back into the hands of the citizens by making the police personable, approachable and nearby. The goal of traditional policing is to protect law-abiding citizens from criminals. They do this by identifying and apprehending criminals while gathering enough evidence to convict them. Traditional beat officers' focus on duty is to respond to incidents swiftly, and clear emergency calls. Many officers

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    Essay on Community Saftey

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    Parts of this paper was turn in March Law Enforcement Management Dadrena Whigham Colorado Technical University CJUS630-1302A-01 Law Enforcement Management Phase 4 individual Project Assistant Professor Peter J. Herdt May 6, 2013 Abstract While community policing is being touted by some as the panacea for all problems in

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    of this perspective are geographic targeting, focused patrol, saturation patrol, and interactive programs. There are other tenants such as simple visibility and foot patrol but I will focus on the three mentioned above. Geographic targeting uses techniques which address crime based on the “hot spot” theory. Hot spots are another

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    vigilante

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    Vigilante Justice The year is 1851 in the newest biggest town of San Francisco, where the first vigilante committee was formed. These committees have been around longer than any police station in the west, and their sole purpose was to act as the law when the law was absent. During these times in San Francisco the crime rates were outrageous because of the new found golden wealth in the area. When the gold rush hit people from all over the world flocked to get a piece of the golden pie. Back then these

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    Intro There are a series of variations of the definition of community policing. Community policing is a system ran for police officers within communities so that they can become familiar with local citizens. In majority of cities, the relationship that is already between officers and community citizens end up going wrong because not the ‘right’ officer gets put where they need to be. State officials hire officers from small towns and put them in the city, or it’s the case where city officers are

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    information based on geographical settings and or areas. • Rapid Deployment of resources, particularly combining the immediate presence of uniform patrol working concert with directed undercover operations. • Effective tactics and Strategies of enforcement that focus on visible street crime or “quality of Life” crimes. • Relentless follow up and assessment, placing the responsibility completely on the police officer in charge. • CompStat is problem oriented and prevents crime, and focus on problem

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    1. Key issues facing law enforcement in identifying and interviewing someone in this particular special population segment of our community. The effective transition to policing depends upon the ability and readiness of police managers and officers to create an organizational climate that supports continual learning, self-critique, and most importantly, change. The existence of internal issues such as opposition to change, power struggles, and informal communications are can either hinder or facilitate

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