Community Policing Ch 9

• street lighting programs,
• property marking projects,
• security survey projects,
• citizen patrol projects,
• crime reporting, neighborhood-watch, or block projects

Mobile Crime Watch, Youth Crime Watch, Business crime watch, apartment watch, Realtor watch, and Carrier Alert

Citizen Crime prevention associations, Crime Stoppers, And MADD

Volunteers may serve in a Crime prevention Capacity as reserve officers, auxiliary patrol, or community service officers or on an as-needed basis.

Common programs aimed at youths include the MCgruff "take a BiteOut of Crime" campaign, police athletic leagues (pals), officer friendly, police explorers, police-school liaison programs, and the DARE programs.

Places an officer in a School to work with school authorities, parents, and students to prevent crime and antisocial behavior and to improve police-youth relationships

The joints Goals of most police-school Liaison programs are to to prevent juvenile delinquency and to improve police-youth relations.

traditionally were Foot patrol, newsletters, and community organizing 

• Flints Neighborhood Foot Patrol Program Appeared to:
• Decease Crime, increased general Citizen satisfaction with foot patrol program, reduce citizens' fear of crime, and create a positive perception of the foot patrol officers

Newark: Residents reported positive results, whereas business owners reported negative results

Oakland: resulted in a substantial drop in the rate of crime against individuals and their property. 

San Diego:  officers became more service oriented, increased their non-law enforcement contacts with citizens, and had a more positive attitude toward police-community relations.

Houston: didn't have positive results. the program backfired, with Hispanics and Asians experiencing an increase in fear. Contact was primarily with white homeowners rather than minority renters. 

Boston: found no statistically significant relationship between changes in the level of foot patrol provided and the number of calls for service

Baltimore County: reduced fear of crime by 10 percent and crime itself by 12 percent in target neighborhoods.

Seattle: used property identification home security checks, and neighborhood block watches to significantly reduce the residential burglary rate as well as the number of burglary in progress calls

Portland: anti-burglary program succeeded in reducing the burglary rate for those who participated.

Hartford: restructured the neighborhood's physical environment, changed the way patrol officers were assigned, organized the neighborhood in an effort to reduce crime and fear of crime

Coordinated effort among law enforcement, courts and corrections is required to effectively deal with the crime problem and to elicit the support of the community in doing so

A Coordinated effort among law enforcement, courts, and corrections is required to effectively deal with the crime problem and to elicit the support of the community in doing so.

Model court programs also involving the police include community dispute resolution centers and a deferred prosecution/first offenders unit.

the public favorably received the "McGruff" format and content, and the Campaign had a sizable impact on what people know and do about crime prevention

Eighteen model programs shared the following characteristics.

• The programs: 
• 1)Focused on causes of crime
• 2)build on community strengths
• 3)incorporated natural support systems.
• 4)Had an identifiable group of clients
• 5)targeted those who were less affluent
• 6)had clearly stated goals and well-defined procedures.
• 7)had sufficient resources.
• 8)Had a strong leader

• Impediments to implementing innovative community-oriented policing include:
• 1)the powerful pull of tradition
• 2)Substantial segments of the public not wanting the police to change.
• 3)Unions that contiune to be skeptical of innovation.
• 4) The Cost of innovation.
• 5)lack Of Vision on the part of police executives
• 6)police Departments' inability to evaluate their own effectiveness

• Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design-
• altering the physical environment to enhance safety, reduce the incidence and fear of crime, and improve the quality of life.

(such as deterring crime because of street lights)

Private Citizen patrols -who seek to deter crime and to provide a positive role model for young children

Police Athletic League - developed to provide opportunities for youths to interact with police officers in gyms or ballparks instead of in a juvenile detention hall.

Places an officer in a school to work with school authorities, parents, and students to prevent crime and antisocial behavior and to improve police-youth relationships.

Drug Abuse Resistance Education-

a program aimed at elementary - age school children, seeking to teach them to "say no to drugs"

Research based on observation or practical experience.

Public Service Announcements

Assessments that are more descriptive and less statistical than empirical studies; the opposite of quantitative evaluation.