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Texas Regional Community Policing Institute

Texas Regional Community Policing Institute. Quantifying Quality Workshop Series 1998 . Sam Houston State University. Myth: The Police Make No Difference. Borne first of the lack of clear relationship between staffing levels and crime rates

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Texas Regional Community Policing Institute

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  1. Texas Regional Community Policing Institute Quantifying Quality Workshop Series 1998 Sam Houston State University

  2. Myth: The Police Make No Difference • Borne first of the lack of clear relationship between staffing levels and crime rates • Reinforced by the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment and the Rand Criminal Investigation Study.

  3. Why the Drop in Crime? • Social-demographic Trends • Economic Conditions • Drug Use Prevalence • Incarceration Rates • Police Programs.

  4. Community Policing Institute Theme:Crime-Specific Policing • Clearly defined intervention strategies • Aimed at particular offenses • Committed by particular offenders • At specific places • At specific times PROACTIVE, TARGETED ENFORCEMENT

  5. Statewide UCR Rate

  6. Texas Crime Rate by Offense

  7. Why Quantify? • We should be able to better answer the question: What difference do the police make?

  8. Reduction in Robbery • Location code?(bars, convenience stores, motels, residence)

  9. Reduction in Aggravated Assault • Victim - Offender Relationship? (Spouse, parent, sibling, acquaintance, neighbor, stranger)

  10. Reduction in Auto Theft • Vehicle types, recovery circumstances

  11. Trends in Theft • Property classification (bicycles, computer hardware, credit cards, firearms, jewelry, merchandise, money, office equipment, electronics, tools)

  12. Beat Management • Beat management entails analysis of crime and incident trends • Developing problem-oriented approaches to crime reduction and call for service control • Identifying an array of possible interventions • Implementing proactive endeavors. • A beat manager does not have “free patrol time”. The cynical term substituted for neighborhood oriented policing - nobody on patrol - is indeed implemented, nobody is merely on patrol. • Beat management requires a full workday of deliberative targeted interventions.

  13. Beat Managers • A beat manager is responsible for knowing about and acting upon issues of public safety, public order, and quality of life in neighborhoods. A beat manager • has a college degree, • is articulate, • can both identify and solve problems, • is committed to a career as a beat manager • is a mediator in conflict resolution situations • is capable of conducting investigations • is committed to alternatives to arrest, • but knows how to say, “You’re under arrest. • What is most distinctive from the past, however, is analytic and problem solving abilities.

  14. Beat Management Module Programmed in Microsoft Access, the Community Policing Beat Management Module possesses components such as information on beat problem locations, incident summaries by type of incident by beat/neighborhood, directories of community services/resources by district/beat, and directories of persons of importance to the police by beat/neighborhood.

  15. Beat Management Module Requirements • Operates directly with SHSU’s CRIMES • Formatting is sufficient for data bases with Open Data Base Connectivity • Programming required for legacy systems.

  16. Workshop Theme Some Qualitative Elements Cannot Be Quantified, But Quantification In Detail Can Measure Some Forms Of Quality

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