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The conclusions were clear to me that the increase in police patrols did not significantly deter crime.
Yet, still, we continue to practice such increased police presence strategies. Personally, I believe this is more to help ease citizens and tax payers' minds. With the police forces having huge budgets, increased police presence is a shallow way to make it look like those budgets are actually doing something positive for the community.
Assignment 3: Rand Study
The Rand study of 1976 examined municipal and county police and how these agencies were productive in enforcing local laws. The study examined the process of individual investigators and departments and the processes they implemented in the process of trying to solve crimes. The study used statistical data, interviews, and observations to record the entire process from start to...
However, the study found that only about 7% of investigator activities were directly related to crime solving. More than half of activities were actually conducted post arrest, showing how ineffective the actual process of closing investigations through arrests was. Moreover, the physical processing of evidence was not nearly as efficient as many would like to think.
As such, the writers of the report recommended policy suggestions to increase the effectiveness of local law enforcement agencies and help reduce costs. One of those recommendations was to increase the working relationship between investigators and prosecutors in order to help speed up time preparing for trial and the effectiveness of state cases against defendants. This could possibly include prosecutors having investigators on their own staff.
Assignment 3: Rand Study
The Rand study of 1976 examined municipal and county police and how these agencies were productive in enforcing local laws. The study examined the process of individual investigators and departments and the processes they implemented in the process of trying to solve crimes. The study used statistical data, interviews, and observations to record the entire process from start to finish, as a way to evaluate its overall efficiency. However, the study found that only about 7% of investigator activities were directly related to crime solving. More than half of activities were actually conducted post arrest, showing how ineffective the actual process of closing investigations through arrests was. Moreover, the physical processing of evidence was not nearly as efficient as many would like to think.
As such, the writers of the report recommended policy suggestions to increase the effectiveness of local law enforcement agencies and help reduce costs. One of those recommendations was to increase the working relationship between investigators and prosecutors in order to help speed up time preparing for trial and the effectiveness of state cases against defendants. This could possibly include prosecutors having investigators on their own staff.
Furthermore, several of the partnerships that COPS agencies were able to produce within their disparate communities were little more than simple name recognition, and were not able to produce a significantly impactful relationship between those agencies and the surrounding communities. This lack of a true cooperative partnership also accounts for why the research conducted for the COPS program did not truly have as successful an impact as it probably
Criminal Justice and Intelligence: ILP Assessment 6-10Learning Task: Week 6Confidential informants are sometimes the criminals themselves who collaborate with the police or the intelligence departments in return for a favor (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2018). The favors are usually in the form of reduced jail sentence time or immunity from court prosecution later. Also, they could be honest citizens who truly want to help the betterment of
Cops.usdoj.gov) (p. 45). Intelligence-Led Policing and Theories of Criminology Rational choice, as defined by Larry Seigel, is when an offender makes a rational choice to break the law to either improve his personal situation or to further a value he holds as important. The rational choice to break the law is partly based on "…how efficient the local police happen to be…" and in the case of ILP, if the police and
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However, as criminals become more aware of undercover tactics, the covert officer is required to provide more and more proof that he is indeed a criminal- which leads to the officer committing acts that compromise his or her integrity for the sake of maintaining cover. By understanding the often conflicting nature of these goals, deception and integrity, we can see how an undercover officer can become confused, lost, and
This study indicates that introducing new policing methods can be extremely problematic, (at least in the RCMP organization), and that it can lead to dissention in departments and even in executive areas. It also shows a shift in overall thinking and governance to a more liberal outlook, both on crime and in the public, and it seems this shift is likely to continue. This seems to be a result of