I have faith that we need to take a hardline approach in dealing with the gang issues we have been experiencing. Many states have created laws to have stronger punishments to gang related crimes. Police departments have been joining forces with the federal law enforcement to create task forces to reduce these crimes. I believe that we need to keep these improvements and use a hardline approach.
Law enforcement agencies have already made efforts to reduce the crime rate. They have made youth service programs, gang details, and created gang units. The youth service programs when the police officers who are typically from the youth unit receive the responsibility of gang control. Gang details are when one or two officers who receive explicit …show more content…
With more funds, the police officers can purchase new technologies to focus in on gang control. Stanford created a chart that showed how much funding that a police department in Los Angeles got for crimes. Each project received around the same amount. Narcotics received $295,000; community mobilization received $629,000; gang prevention received $986,946; prosecution received $1,060,473; probation received $1,107,214; law enforcement as a whole received $1,312,061; and education received $1,770,866.
I also believe that we need to focus in on gang communications. I feel we need to look carefully at each display of graffiti. I think police officers should research each tag. There should be a database created for graffiti artists. It is a known fact that gangs use graffiti as a form of communication. If we could somehow crack this code, we could be able to know more about each gang’s movements. If we could figure out the hand signals that the gang uses as well we could better understand each gang. Even if we cannot figure out the hand signs, graffiti is the most considerable way of communication. (p. …show more content…
Increased police in the 1990s brought down crime by about 5 percent (this could range from 0 to 10 percent)." It is also proven that techniques that police use can also reduce crimes. With the introduction of computers into the law enforcement agencies was a major deterrence. The article said "We find that the introduction of CompStat is associated with a roughly 10 percent decrease in crime (this could vary from 5 to 15 percent). In other words, crime is about 10 percent lower in a city that uses a program like CompStat than in an otherwise identical city without it. The effect holds true for violent crime, property crime, and homicide." The article concluded by, "Adding more police officers, and adopting strong, proven management techniques, can actually reduce the rate of crime. Even their combined impact, though, accounts for only a fraction of the documented reductions. Changes in law enforcement are a key part of the larger puzzle, accelerating and reinforcing the other factors that combined to produce the historic drop in crime
Law enforcement agencies have already made efforts to reduce the crime rate. They have made youth service programs, gang details, and created gang units. The youth service programs when the police officers who are typically from the youth unit receive the responsibility of gang control. Gang details are when one or two officers who receive explicit …show more content…
With more funds, the police officers can purchase new technologies to focus in on gang control. Stanford created a chart that showed how much funding that a police department in Los Angeles got for crimes. Each project received around the same amount. Narcotics received $295,000; community mobilization received $629,000; gang prevention received $986,946; prosecution received $1,060,473; probation received $1,107,214; law enforcement as a whole received $1,312,061; and education received $1,770,866.
I also believe that we need to focus in on gang communications. I feel we need to look carefully at each display of graffiti. I think police officers should research each tag. There should be a database created for graffiti artists. It is a known fact that gangs use graffiti as a form of communication. If we could somehow crack this code, we could be able to know more about each gang’s movements. If we could figure out the hand signals that the gang uses as well we could better understand each gang. Even if we cannot figure out the hand signs, graffiti is the most considerable way of communication. (p. …show more content…
Increased police in the 1990s brought down crime by about 5 percent (this could range from 0 to 10 percent)." It is also proven that techniques that police use can also reduce crimes. With the introduction of computers into the law enforcement agencies was a major deterrence. The article said "We find that the introduction of CompStat is associated with a roughly 10 percent decrease in crime (this could vary from 5 to 15 percent). In other words, crime is about 10 percent lower in a city that uses a program like CompStat than in an otherwise identical city without it. The effect holds true for violent crime, property crime, and homicide." The article concluded by, "Adding more police officers, and adopting strong, proven management techniques, can actually reduce the rate of crime. Even their combined impact, though, accounts for only a fraction of the documented reductions. Changes in law enforcement are a key part of the larger puzzle, accelerating and reinforcing the other factors that combined to produce the historic drop in crime