Problem- oriented policing is the alternate approach to policing that has been gaining attention within research in the recent years among many different police departments. Throughout this paper I will touch upon different departments that implemented POP in their departments and the outcomes that came from it and also what I plan to do in my research. The problem statement that this research brings about is whether or not problem- oriented policing lead to a decrease in crime? To do this we need to see if the independent variable, problem-oriented policing influences the dependent variable of the decrease in crime.
Introduction
Problem-oriented policing was introduced by Herman Goldstein in 1979 with the idea that police officers should …show more content…
In order to do so the department for twenty-nine weeks deployed increasing patrols in gun crime “hot spots”, which were identified by computer analysis to find the locations in the city that had the most gun crime. The population of this study was almost completely non-white and in a the poorer parts of the city. Officers that were on these patrols were able to find guns during searches that followed to arrests on other charges, every search had to follow legal guidelines that protected the offenders rights. The findings of this experiments was that data from the first and second halves of the year show a decrease in gun crimes during the second half of the year. A forty-nine percent decrease to be exact and in the area not used in the experiment we saw an increase in gun …show more content…
This experiment used interviews and surveys to find out the extent to which officers in this city use POP in their police work. The results of these interviews and surveys shows that officers were more likely to use the POP approach when responding to drug, public order and temporary types of problems opposed to traffic and property crime. The extent to which their Problem-oriented policing would go would be for one person or one location. In this department the officers decided not to use the resources they had at their disposal when implementing this type of policing. When concluding whether or not this department used POP in order to reduce crime can’t fully be said because the fact the officers only did half of the POP work that they could of. Without using the SARA model or following the crime triangle the officers only did half the work. Instead of just focusing on the drug problems with POP the officers of the San Diego Police Department should’ve focused on implementing the approach within all aspect of crime in the city to see if it actually would work in reducing
Introduction
Problem-oriented policing was introduced by Herman Goldstein in 1979 with the idea that police officers should …show more content…
In order to do so the department for twenty-nine weeks deployed increasing patrols in gun crime “hot spots”, which were identified by computer analysis to find the locations in the city that had the most gun crime. The population of this study was almost completely non-white and in a the poorer parts of the city. Officers that were on these patrols were able to find guns during searches that followed to arrests on other charges, every search had to follow legal guidelines that protected the offenders rights. The findings of this experiments was that data from the first and second halves of the year show a decrease in gun crimes during the second half of the year. A forty-nine percent decrease to be exact and in the area not used in the experiment we saw an increase in gun …show more content…
This experiment used interviews and surveys to find out the extent to which officers in this city use POP in their police work. The results of these interviews and surveys shows that officers were more likely to use the POP approach when responding to drug, public order and temporary types of problems opposed to traffic and property crime. The extent to which their Problem-oriented policing would go would be for one person or one location. In this department the officers decided not to use the resources they had at their disposal when implementing this type of policing. When concluding whether or not this department used POP in order to reduce crime can’t fully be said because the fact the officers only did half of the POP work that they could of. Without using the SARA model or following the crime triangle the officers only did half the work. Instead of just focusing on the drug problems with POP the officers of the San Diego Police Department should’ve focused on implementing the approach within all aspect of crime in the city to see if it actually would work in reducing