Factors That Influence How Police Do Their Job
uniform crime reporting
What are known places where crime is most likely to happen known as?
Hot spots
What does SARA stand for?
Scanning, Analysis, Response, Assessment
Community Engagement
Police building ongoing, trusting, and mutually respectful relationships with neighbourhood citizens, community-based organizations , and other agencies for the purposes of resolving local neighbourhood problems that threaten safety and well-being
What is the traditional model of policing resistant to?
Collaboration
Enforcement actions that are strategically planned out are known as what?
Targeted Enforcement
What happens when police legitimacy decreases?
Procedural Justice
Fairness or perceived fairness in procedures
Three components of community policing?
1) Partnerships
2) Problem-Solving
3) Prevention
What does effective community engagement rely on?
Problem-Solving and Crime Prevention
What is the Broken Windows Theory
Social disorder leads to crime largely because it creates opportunity for crime
COMPSTAT
A program for analysis and mapping of occurrence data that is used to prioritize and mobilize police enforcement actions
What are the 2 different kinds of problem solving? Which one is used today?
Incident-Driven and Risk-Driven
-Risk-Driven is the used today in policing
What is the positive that comes from doing foot patrols?
Improving police legitmicacy
What did Lawrence Sherman observe?
Sherman observed that Police themselves create a risk factor for crime simply by using bad manners
Community Asset Surveys
Inventories of individuals, agencies, organizations, and businesses, including their interests and capabilities in furthering safety and well-being
What are the 2 major barriers to achieving the science that the future policing require?
1) Limited capacities
2) Limited interest, knowledge, and capabilities to apply the research in their strategic, tactical, and management decisions
What are the four components of enforcement?
Gathering and analysis of information; Rapid development; Effective tactics; and focused follow-up
What are the four qualities of Procedural Justice?
Citizen participation, Fairness and neutrality, Dignity and Respect, and Trustworthy motives
Intelligence-Led Policing
The practice of using intelligence to identify the risk that offences, harms, or victimization will occur rather than as an investigative tool after offensive and harmful incidents have occurred