How Well You Can Define Problem Oriented Policing in Criminology Flashcards

- community has to play a vital role in problem solving and crime fighting

- public must engaged in the fight against crime and disorder- in the early 1980s community policing emerged as the dominant model and thinking for policing- attempts to address crime control through a working partnership with the community- community organizations are as important as the police- LONG TERM change that involves institutional change- PROACTIVE CREATIVE RESOLUTION

- police station houses are being changes in terms of design and amenities in order to engage in better community building- generally stations are "unfriendly" looking

- 2 ways of dealing with problems 1. problem solving can be applied by officers throughout the agency as daily work 2. routine problem solving efforts can be effective in reducing or resolving problems

-puts COP philosophy into practice-advocates that police exam the underlying causes of incidents of crime and disorder-helps identify problems, analyze them completely, develop response strategies and assess the results

-considered the principal architect of POP-move beyond just handing incidents and recognize that incidents are often overt symptoms of problem-officers have to take a more in depth interest in incidents-developed the 4 stage SARA model

1. SCANNING2. ANALYSIS3. RESPONSE4. ASSESSMENT

-identify problems of their beats and look for patterns or repeat incidents-Problem: 2 or more incidents are similar in one or more respects, which cause concern to the police and public

Behaviors: frequent indicator/activities such as selling drugs, robberies, thefts and graffitiLocations: problems that occur in regular HOT SPOTSPeople: repeat offenders and victims account for high proportions of crimeTime: incidents are similar in terms of season, day of the week, hour of the dayEvents; crime may peak during events such as spring break

- CFS from the same location or a series of similar incidents-Primary Purpose: conduct a preliminary inquiry to determine whether a problem really exists and whether further analysis is needed

-set of systematic, analytical process providing timely and pertinent info to assist operational and administrative personnel-people need to know what is causing the problem -PRIMARY PURPOSE: is to learn as much as possible about a problem in order to identify its causes

1. Problem-analysis triangle2. use of crime mapping and offense reports3. analysis of CFS4. use of community surveys

- helps officers visualize the problem and understand the relationship between the 3 elements of the triangle - offender, victim and place: on the outside of the triangle - problem: on the inside- suggests where more info is needed and helps with crime control and prevention- when a problem, victim, offender and place are all present over and over in patterns/removing one can stop the pattern and prevent future harm

- computerized crime mapping- combines geographic info from global positioning satillites with crime stats gathered by the departments computer-aider dispatching (CAD)- offense reports are also a potential source of info about high-crime areas and addresses since they capture the exact location- computer software also assists with profiling beats and demographics, finding patterns of problems, balancing beat workload, current level of performance

- more sensible source of CFS has become available- CAD (computer aider dispatching) systems containing info on all types of CFS add info provided by offese reports, which shows more extensive account of what the public reports to police- can show more hot spots and specific locations- use CADS data for repeat-call analysis