What is police effectiveness?

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What is police effectiveness?

I Introduction to Police Effectiveness

A. Measurement Issues

What is police effectiveness?

Measures of police performance: outcomes and outputs

Outcomes

Definition/Description:
Examples:
Outputs

Definition:
List and describe four (4) traditional measures:
B. Crime Policy Evaluation

Three (3) types of evaluation used to evaluate crime prevention interventions, strategies, and policies

Impact

Definition/description:
Examples:
Obstacles/Limitations:
Process

Definition/description:

What factors do process evaluations consider?

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Definition/description:

Problems with conducting cost-benefit evaluations of CJ programs/policies:

II Standard Model of Policing

A. Response Time

Define the following:

Response Time
Rapid Response
Citizen Reporting Time
Police Dispatch Time
Police Travel Time
Total Response Time
Kansas City Response Time Analysis

Conclusion:

Police response time has an effect on what other factors, and how?

Police Executive Research Forum Study
Main findings:
III Compstat

What is Compstat?

Description of Compstat (Visible Components of Compstat):

List and describe key elements (What Compstat promises):

Strengths of Compstat:

The Police Foundation Survey
Findings (Actual Implementation):

Traditional “bureaucratic” or “paramilitary” organizational structure

Internal contradictions
Limitations:

Reaction versus Reform (Weisburd et al.’s Argument)

Evaluation of Compstat

Data manipulation

Linked to Aggressive or Zero-tolerance policing strategies

IV Place-Based Prevention

A. Neighborhood Prevention

Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED)

What is CPTED?
Examples:
What are some potential limitations of CPTED?
Neighborhood Crime Prevention

Description/Purpose:
Describe the following neighborhood crime prevention programs:

Neighborhood Watch programs
Citizens on Patrol
What obstacles inhibit neighborhood organization?
B. Importance of Place
Random Preventative Patrol
What is random preventative patrol?

Kansas City Preventative Patrol Study

Why was the Kansas City Preventative Patrol Study important?
Main findings:
Hot Spots

Definition/Description:
Examples:
Minneapolis Hot Spots Patrol Experiment

Main findings:
Why was the Minneapolis Hot Spots Patrol Experiment important?
C. Theoretical Importance of Place
Theories that explain crime events – 3 core theories:

Rational Choice

What is rational choice theory?
Routine Activities (RAT)
Explain routine activity theory.

Problem Triangle – Illustrate, and list (and describe) the components

Crime Pattern Theory (CPT/Environmental Criminology)

Describe crime pattern theory.

How do CPT and RAT differ?
V Partnerships and Community Policing

A. Partnerships and the Police

Describe partnerships for crime prevention

Purpose, and how they function
Participants
List and describe weaknesses of partnership programs.
What are the key factors for building successful partnerships?

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