Zero Tolerance Policing: A Case Study

Some patrol members receive rent abatements in exchange for hours worked. Police officers train residents in crime observation and prevention and provide patrols with flashlights, whistles, walkie-talkies, jackets, and caps. Successful narcotics sweep programs in public housing depend on cooperation among housing residents, management, the local municipal housing authority, and law enforcement

The broken windows theory is a good-fighting crime strategy and suggested the way in thinking about the community. Citizens felt safer when police department conducted more foot patrol in the neighborhood and felt that police were more aware of the crime that occur. Broken windows-theory created a better environment for the community and promoted the community to stay in active programs that focused on prevention and criminal activity. In the high-crime neighborhood areas, the police worked with the community. If a window was broken then the owner of the window had to immediately replace it.

Nonetheless, the process has been slow, but by building restorative juvenile justice systems from the bottom up, then the state of Chicago is headed towards reclaiming a common sense amongst the youth. Once common sense is regained, the community can potentially be restored and eventually the state of Chicago reclaimed. Even though the city has numerous community centers mandated with restoring young adults, perhaps, the inability of the justice system to incorporate restorative measures in juvenile violations is the missing piece of the puzzle. The cooperation of the community centers and the juvenile justice systems in the state will, therefore, ensure that the youth will not find resistance to positive change that is the building block or restorative juvenile justice. Consequently, the prospects of restorative justice are proving to return positive results in Chicago, Kerry Clamp in her book, “Restorative Justice in Transitional Settings”, describes the conceptual challenges to some violations such as genocide based violations or mass victimization.

The standard model of police practices is assuming that generic strategies for crime reduction can be applied in any jurisdiction no matter the level of crime, the nature of crimes or any other variations. Even though Belize is a small country the “standard model of police practices” could also be criticized if it is to be utilized by the police departments and be efficient in stopping and preventing crimes. Police brutality is an area of research that allows us to understand how common it is and to help us find better solutions to deal with this brutality. There are many surveys and cases studies from police officers that determines how often and why police officers may be involve in

In a study, 77.2% of profiling reports provided by the FBI was indeed considered useful in providing an outside perspective on a case and in helping to focus on the investigation. Criminal profiling may be misused by several law enforcement officials but you can not deny that has been a legitimate investigation tool for many years. With the progression of criminal profiling there is going to be misuse and misconceptions however, you can’t discredit the beneficial analysis that profiling brings. It’s efficiency in providing insight to the investigators showcased how a setback like racial misuse won’t interfere with getting the crime solved at the end of the

Another alternative to decrease police misconduct is through the use of body cameras which would hold officers accountable for their actions. Often, commanding officers exercise little supervision over the daily activities of their officers. Not only do officers patrol alone, but they are authorized to quickly create solutions and sanctions on the spot. This provides officers the freedom to get away with both minor and major violations to outright crimes. A tactic to prevent this from occurring is to mount body cameras on officers while on duty.

Community policing includes citizens when trying to discover the answers to the problems. It also tries to eradicate the fear that has been in the public and maintain order in society. The police attack this in a strategic method such that the relationship between the community and the police is retained. Before any matter by the community police is handled, they initially have to make certain that a camaraderie between their system and the public is built (Hofstede, 2013). This is done through team policing which officially started in 1970 after the realization that the policies of the police department could not work better unless the community was involved (Carter, Phillips, & Gayadeen, 2014).

Social disorganization theory emerged from the early school of criminology and focused on the characteristics of neighborhoods which indicate a lack of collective efficacy that prevents deviancy and criminal behaviors. These aspects are summarized as poverty, high residential mobility, deteriorating physical conditions, homogeneity of residents and other social ills present. A neighborhood watch group collaborates with a neighborhood in order to organize themselves against aspects of social disorganization (Bennett et al, 2006), by improving neighborhood conditions, running patrols and reporting suspicious behavior to the police. The goal of this polices that, is to create collective efficacy which causes reductions in criminal behavior. The issue with neighborhood watch is that is characterized as a "black-box" where many aspects of multiple criminological theories have been incorporated making it difficult to determine which concepts are effective for reducing crime.

Investigators in this unit are assigned to audit offices and officers to conduct spot firearm, ticket book, process adherence and other systems checks Faull (2008). This research study will help identify policy recommendations to reforming professional ethical behavior in law enforcement and determine if the policy recommendations in this study were successful or not. The Metropolitan Police Departments do not structure any guidelines for correcting corruption from colleague to colleague when being witnessed. The Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department is the only Metropolitan Police Department that runs a campaign addressing corruption. Therefore, the Metropolitan Police Departments will lack less resources in implementing policy

This is because it is applied as police carry out their daily routine activities such as preventing crimes, searching, arresting and charging suspects. Given the ambiguous nature of the existing criminal laws concerning the scope and dealings of conflict and disorder situations, alongside the limited resources allocated to the police departments, and variations in nature of offences; police discretion becomes a principle part for officers to give weight to law enforcement (Griffiths, 2013: 122). First of all, individual officers in streets and fast areas has to decide whether an incident they are coming across fits into the definition of an offence as stipulated by the law and to what extend are they to be subjected to judgement. For instance, in a case of an assault, the law does not give further definitions on whether it is simple or aggravated assault. So it is the mandate of the officer to what kind it fits

Despite the limited research and analysis of third party policing, the studies that have been conducted have found that third party policing can be effective for controlling crimes such as youth problems and drugs (Drew & Prenzler, 2015). In the case of theft from retail, improved relations between the police, store owners and retail management, as well as the general public can have positive effects for crime reduction. Despite limited research available regarding the effectiveness of shopfront police beats, they continue to grow in numbers in the larger retail centres which indicates they are having a positive effect. The police beat program was launched in Queensland in 1993 and today has 46 neighbourhood police beats and 48 shopfront police beats established (Queensland Police, 2016). Research conducted by Taylor & Charlton (2005) reported that retailers from centres where a shopfront police beat is present are more likely to report crime than retailers at a centre without a shopfront police beat.