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Date: April 29, 2024 Mon
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Results for proactive policing
4 results foundAuthor: Tyler, Tom R. Title: The Consequence of Being a Target of Suspicion: Potential Pitfalls of Proactive Policing Summary: During the latter half of the 20th century a new model of policing developed in the United States which continues to dominate American policing today. It has two key features. First, it proactively attempts to prevent crime through the widespread use of police stops and arrests for minor crimes. Second, it imposes policing policies and practices upon communities instrumentally via the threat or use of various legal sanctions. Data from a national survey indicate that this approach to policing does not lower fear of crime; increase the perceived risk of punishment for rule breaking; or strongly impact perceptions of disorder. On the other hand, it has damaged the social bonds between the police and the community; undermined police legitimacy and led to declines in public willingness to cooperate with the police. This paper examines how such policies developed, why they are problematic, and how a focus on building popular legitimacy would be more desirable. Details: Unpublished paper, 2014. 66p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 21, 2017 at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers2.cfm?abstract_id=2468779 Year: 2014 Country: United States URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers2.cfm?abstract_id=2468779 Shelf Number: 147375 Keywords: Broken Windows TheoryPolice LegitimacyProactive PolicingStop and FriskZero Tolerance Policing |
Author: Geller, Amanda Title: Policing America's Children: Police Contact and Consequences Among Teens in Fragile Families Summary: Recent high-profile incidents of police violence and misconduct have brought widespread attention to long-standing tensions between police departments and the communities they serve. Policy shifts over the past 20 years have led to the broad adoption of "proactive" policing, which emphasizes active engagement of citizens at low levels of suspicion. Police use investigative stops, citations, and arrests to detect and disrupt low-level disorder or other circumstances interpreted as indicia that crime is afoot. However, these encounters rarely uncover illegal activity, and in many cities are characterized by stark racial disparities. Such encounters threaten the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities targeted. Due largely to data constraints, little is known about the experiences of youth stopped by the police, and the current national picture of policing and its implications for youth is unclear. I use new data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Survey (FFCWS) to measure the extent, nature, and health implications of police contact among a cohort of contemporary urban teenagers. I find that FFCWS teens have extensive police exposure: more than 75% report a police officer stationed at their school, and more than 25% report personal experience with the police. This contact is racially disparate, and often severe. Observed racial disparities in both a binary indicator of stop experience and a measure of police intrusion are robust to controls for adolescent behavior and their peer context. Further, I find that adolescents' experiences with the police are significantly associated with multiple indicators of adverse mental health, suggesting that police contact has the potential to drive or exacerbate health disparities among urban teens. Details: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, 2017. Source: Internet Resource: Working Papers wp18-02-ff: Accessed May 18, 2018 at: https://ideas.repec.org/p/pri/crcwel/wp18-02-ff.html Year: 2017 Country: United States URL: https://ideas.repec.org/p/pri/crcwel/wp18-02-ff.html Shelf Number: 150262 Keywords: Fragile FamiliesPolice-Community InteractionsPolice-Community RelationsPolice-Juvenile RelationsProactive Policing |
Author: Centre for Social Justice Title: Growing the Local: Creating Local Freedom to Fund the Fight Against Crime Summary: Introduction to Police Funding and Demand Today Police and Crime Commissioners, in consultation with their Chief Constables, are responsible for how funding is allocated to policing and to cutting crime. They also have a responsibility to hold the police to account on behalf of the public. As the Government's flagship policing reform, the crucial next step is giving PCCs greater control over the level of funding raised locally, through the police precept. Ensuring local areas have the freedom to set and adjust taxation form part of the recommendations set out by the CSJ in our recent The Great British Breakthrough report. While capping local taxation has been shown to be necessary in the past, the current level of cap is holding back the potential for PCCs to make investments in evidence-based early interventions that can improve community safety and cut crime. For many, this lack of flexibility is also impacting on the delivery of proactive policing. Now is an opportune time for Government to move towards enabling PCCs to invest in programmes and resources that go beyond simply reacting to crime and growing demands, and move into more preventative and proactive efforts to improve community safety. Proactive and preventative investment is vital to public safety, whether by changing lives and reducing unnecessary pressure on the criminal justice system, or by helping protect the most vulnerable and disadvantaged by preventing crime or pursuing offenders. Enabling PCCs to raise funds locally to make these investments should be the next step for Government and one that will help ensure PCCs and their Chiefs have more freedom to act on local priorities and to fight crime. Details: Westminster, UK: The Centre for Social Justice, 2017. 7p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed January 18, 2019 at: https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/library/growing-the-local-creating-local-freedom-fund-fight-crime Year: 2017 Country: United Kingdom URL: https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/core/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/CSJ-Growing-the-Local-TIDY-FINAL.pdf Shelf Number: 154271 Keywords: Budget Chief Constables Community Safety Crime Commissioners Funding Investment Police Departments Policing Policing Reform Preventative Policing Proactive Policing |
Author: U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation Title: The Assailant Study - Mindsets and Behaviors Summary: An unclassified FBI study on last year's cop-killing spree found officers are "de-policing" amid concerns that anti-police defiance fueled in part by movements like Black Lives Matter has become the "new norm." "Departments - and individual officers - have increasingly made the decision to stop engaging in proactive policing," said the report by the FBI Office of Partner Engagement obtained by The Washington Times. The report, "Assailant Study - Mindsets and Behaviors," said that the social-justice movement sparked by the 2014 death of 18-year-old Michael Brown at the hands of an officer in Ferguson, Missouri, "made it socially acceptable to challenge and discredit the actions of law enforcement." FBI spokesman Matthew Bertron said the study was written in April. "Nearly every police official interviewed agreed that for the first time, law enforcement not only felt that their national political leaders [publicly] stood against them, but also that the politicians' words and actions signified that disrespect to law enforcement was acceptable in the aftermath of the Brown shooting," the study said. Details: Washington, DC: Author, 2017. 4p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 11, 2019 at: http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/MindsetReport.pdf Year: 2017 Country: United States URL: http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/MindsetReport.pdf Shelf Number: 155361 Keywords: Assaults Against Police De-Policing Police Assailants Proactive policing |