Pulling levers policing is a deterrent strategy used in departments in the U.S. and abroad. This strategy follows the research that a few chronic offending criminals who do most the crime and will be punished to stop the crime. This strategy can be used with crackdowns or specific target of groups of people and or gangs. This can be used with giving those …show more content…
Problem solving policing can be used with pulling levers type of policing. Pulling Levers was first introduced in Boston to combat gang violence, the strategy included deploying extra officers, introducing a moral voice, and giving services to the community which was to attempt to deter youth from violence and drugs. This strategy could be used with community policing by implementing it with moral voice and services to the community which pulling lever policing uses well. Another step is learning from the field officer who and what is causing the criminal behaviours, this would be helpful if they had community police officers who had close ties and trust with the community. Members of the community would be more willing to give up information on its citizens if they had a close-knit relationship with the …show more content…
Scott 2015 used this phrase CHEERS which is Community affected, harm is caused, expectations of police reasonable, events are discrete and describable, recurring nature of events, similarity among event. This defines which problems of the community problem oriented policing tries to target. Problems could be defined by the behavior such as drugs, or by person such as the gangbangers, or by location such as a bar or house, or by the time such as rush hour traffic problems, or a hybrid prblems suc as teeneagers, at night on th eweekends at a certain house. Community policing done right could know the scope of these issues and would be able to target these problems fro the information given to them by the