The Importance Of Crime In California

Stockton is well-known to most of California as a crime city, in that its reputation for crime is quite large. What we do not know is why Stockton is so dangerous to many people? Does it have to do with ethnicity, immigration, and or people wanting to be bad, or maybe it is none of those reasons; it could be that people do crime to get revenge, dignity, or a sense of being the boss. Whatever the reason is, it needs to be stopped, not just by the police, but the whole community as well. The identification of crime increases as well as how to decrease it should be a huge role in a community. Crime rates are still at a huge percentage, and we as a community can try to stop it from rising even more. Perhaps the thought process of being a criminal …show more content…
What if it wasn’t their behavior? The lack of police enforcement can play a huge role in crime rates. The Fresno Bee states that due to the bankruptcy in 2012 for Stockton, the rate of crime increased. This bankruptcy “forced to lay off almost 25% of its police force.” With a smaller police force, there is no doubt that people are a lot bolder to take action and commit crimes. With this bankruptcy in Stockton, it reached a new “record high for homicides—6 so far, 10 more than the previous record last year.” (The Fresno Bee, “Stockton 's financial policies lead to growing crime rate - Unwise city decisions turn Valley city into the wild, wild West.”) Luckily, Operation Ceasefire was created to deal with the 2012’s increase of crime rates. As the Fresno Bee states in its article, it is a “partnership among police, faith-based organizations and social service groups.” Their main goal was to, again going back to teens; persuade the “young men to give up their gang lifestyle.” With a community involved, the Operation Ceasefire went very well in forming “more than 100 neighborhood watches.” (The Fresno Bee, “Stockton 's financial policies lead to growing crime rate - Unwise city decisions turn Valley city into the wild, wild …show more content…
Like stated previously, we can do something like Operation Ceasefire. This idea can help stop crime at a young age and also can help even the adults. There are many good ideas that we could use, but first, we as a community needs to understand where each criminal comes from. If we can somehow connect to those individuals and tell them personal experiences, they may be able to forfeit their criminal life. Of course sometimes it does not work and sometimes it is too dangerous as well, so we have to find that ground where we can work with. “Crime reduction interventions should be tailored to the degree to which high crime is the result of prevalence or concentration” (Rogerson, 446). We should try to concentrate on a specific crime and work on from there, because if we try to stop the most dangerous of crimes, it may put innocent citizens at