Police Departments are always evolving. trying to better themselves police departments are implementing strategies and tactics. Throughout the past decades, policing strategies have been slowly shifting from one to another. Traditional ,problem-oriented, community oriented and order maintenance policing all are influenced by the previous in some shape or form.
Problem-Oriented Policing(POP) is the strategy in which police discovers the problems and responds to it. Herman Goldstein is known as the father of problem oriented policing after his academic work was published. According to Goldstein, “agencies need to become proactive rather than reactive, moving away from simply reacting to citizen calls-for-service and moving toward identifying …show more content…
Much emphasis was shown to problem-oriented with the advancements of technology and using to their exceeding capacity, police departments lost their community bond. This era traditional policing made a reappearance. Due to the improvement of mobile cars, police departments relied heavily on them. Although police officers were able to patrol faster, the community and police departments began drifting apart. Soon communities felt as if they did not know who their police officers were. In order to improve community life , programs were set up to have officers go back to foot patrol. Although foot patrolling did not reduce crime, citizens felt safer and believing that crime was being reduced. “What foot-patrol officers did was to elevate, to the extent they could, the level of public order in these neighborhoods (Wilson & Kelling, 1982, p. 2).” Without having a watchman keeping the solicitors away, violent criminals may take advantage and chose the neighborhood for their future crimes,this known as the broken windows theory. Order maintenance policing is a combination of preventative tactics to manage social disorder. Traditional, problem-oriented, community, order maintenance policing have different tactics on dealing with crime and the public but with the same end goal, to reduce
Problem-Oriented Policing(POP) is the strategy in which police discovers the problems and responds to it. Herman Goldstein is known as the father of problem oriented policing after his academic work was published. According to Goldstein, “agencies need to become proactive rather than reactive, moving away from simply reacting to citizen calls-for-service and moving toward identifying …show more content…
Much emphasis was shown to problem-oriented with the advancements of technology and using to their exceeding capacity, police departments lost their community bond. This era traditional policing made a reappearance. Due to the improvement of mobile cars, police departments relied heavily on them. Although police officers were able to patrol faster, the community and police departments began drifting apart. Soon communities felt as if they did not know who their police officers were. In order to improve community life , programs were set up to have officers go back to foot patrol. Although foot patrolling did not reduce crime, citizens felt safer and believing that crime was being reduced. “What foot-patrol officers did was to elevate, to the extent they could, the level of public order in these neighborhoods (Wilson & Kelling, 1982, p. 2).” Without having a watchman keeping the solicitors away, violent criminals may take advantage and chose the neighborhood for their future crimes,this known as the broken windows theory. Order maintenance policing is a combination of preventative tactics to manage social disorder. Traditional, problem-oriented, community, order maintenance policing have different tactics on dealing with crime and the public but with the same end goal, to reduce