Some very interesting topics that I have learned in this module are the different approaches and strategies that police use to implement their way of law enforcement. With community oriented policing a philosophy that has become much more mainstream in law enforcement agencies within the past 30-40 years or so, we see how departments began to change closer to how agencies behave today as compared to the professional crime fighters (Gardiner, 2017). I’ve observed how police agencies have used both problem oriented policing and especially Broken Windows Policies interchangeably in different cities and even in different parts of the city.
Broken window policy was enforced heavily in the train stations of the city I grew up in. I recall vaguely in my childhood in the early 2000’s in San Francisco of the metro train cars often being covered with marker graffiti that would not be taken off until months later. Tunnels to the train station were often littered with trash, smell like urine and feces, and panhandlers aggressively approaching people for money. I also remember that it was easier to evade fares than was in the past eight years (many people today however still evade fares, as prices went from $0.50 fares $2.25 for adult tickets). When the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency decided to become “tough on crime,” they began removing graffiti off trains frequently, employing metro police officers to enforce and prevent …show more content…
We would tell other friends where police were “raiding,” so we knew what stop to get off to be safe. One of my friends who got caught was fined almost $100 (ironically he said the same exact day that he would never get caught). This also created distrust to the police, as many people disliked how police were aggressively and frequently checking people for fares. I saw when police goes “hard on crime,” police legitimacy is often something that is
Broken window policy was enforced heavily in the train stations of the city I grew up in. I recall vaguely in my childhood in the early 2000’s in San Francisco of the metro train cars often being covered with marker graffiti that would not be taken off until months later. Tunnels to the train station were often littered with trash, smell like urine and feces, and panhandlers aggressively approaching people for money. I also remember that it was easier to evade fares than was in the past eight years (many people today however still evade fares, as prices went from $0.50 fares $2.25 for adult tickets). When the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency decided to become “tough on crime,” they began removing graffiti off trains frequently, employing metro police officers to enforce and prevent …show more content…
We would tell other friends where police were “raiding,” so we knew what stop to get off to be safe. One of my friends who got caught was fined almost $100 (ironically he said the same exact day that he would never get caught). This also created distrust to the police, as many people disliked how police were aggressively and frequently checking people for fares. I saw when police goes “hard on crime,” police legitimacy is often something that is