10/6/2025

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Issues in Patrolling

Assignment of Patrol Personnel

  1. preventive patrol

  2. hot spots

  3. foot versus motorized patrol

  4. aggressive patrol

  5. community policing

resources focused on

preventive patrol - reactive and proactive - service fucntions

Hot spots - places where crimes are likely to occur

  • directed patrol - proactive strategy designed to direct resources to known high-crime areas

foot versus motorized patrol - sloce to the daily life of the neighborhood

aggressive patrol - proactive strategy designed to maximize police activity in the community

  • sting operations, firearm confiscation, raids on crack houses

  • zero tolerance policing

  • war on drugs

community policing - attempts by police to involve residents in making their own neighborhoods safer

  1. Focusing on community-based crime prevention

  2. changing the focus of patrol activities to nonemergency services

  3. making the police more accountable to the public

  4. decentralizing decision making to include residents

  • problem-orienting policing - strategy that seeks to find out what is causing citizens to call for help

The future of patrolling - becoming more community oriented

Police and the Community - actions can be misinterpreted or misunderstood - criticism and distrust of the police

Special Populations

  • growing number of people suffering from mental illness, homelessness, acoholism, drug addiction

  • cooperate with social service agencies

  • resources directed to social service professionals

Policing in a Diverse Society

  • targeted victimization of demographic groups

    • after covid and 9/11

    • legalized same sex marriage

  • racial profiling

Community Crime Prevention