Proactive Policing
Intelligence-Led Policing
- CAP (Common Sense, Audits, and Purges)
- 3-1 Model- Interpret crime enviornment, influence decision makers, and impact crime enviornment)
- Built around risk
- Combats terrorism as well as general crime
- Community Policing
- Increased Exposure
- Increased Communication
- Monitors and Evaluates programs reactively
- Adjusts programs accordingly to improve results proactively
Community Policing
- Controversially Reactive
- Utilizes the public as the eyes and ears of the community
- Peelian Principle- Police are the public and the public are the police.
- Broken-Window Theory- If it appears no one cares, crime and disorder will thrive
- Core of Police Operations
- Consumes the most amount of time, energy, and resources
- "Involves answering calls, maintaining a police presence to deter crime, and probing suspicious circumstances" (Police Strategies pg.1)
- Philosophy of Crime Control
- Method of Management
- Keeps strict records and procedures to identify crime patterns and problems
- Effective Tactics/ Rapid Deployment/ Relentless Follow-Up
Definitions
Proactive Policing can be mistaken for racial profiling
Blacks Law- Relationship with defendant, cultural distance, and cultural deviance all effect the prosecution
Proactive policing is the practice of deterring criminal activity by showing police presence and engaging the public to learn their concerns, thereby preventing crime from happening in the first place.
Problem-Solving Policing
Reactive Policing is responding to a complaint after a crime has been committed
- Determining the underlying cause of crime
- Groups incidents to identify problem areas
- Aims to locate and find solutions to problem areas
Contemporary
Policing
- Community Policing
- Problem-Solving Policing
- CompStat Policing
- Intelligence-Led Policing
- Evidence-Based Policing
Why Reactive Policing is Ineffient
By: Kyle Morgan
- Delay in addressing the matter
- Allows criminals a head start
- Allows initial crime to take place