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Strategic Planning is

a leadership tool and a process; it is primarily used for one purpose: to help an organization do a better jobAto focus its energy, ensure that members of the organization are working toward the same goals, and assess and adjust an organization’s direction in response to a changing environment.

Some of the reasonsfor conducting a needs assessment or community needs assessment are:

-To list and clarify existing crime and drugproblems


-To provide information to the public aboutproblems


-To provide baseline data for evaluation

It is essential that chief executives view and communicate the idea that COPPS is a departmentAwide strategy, in scope, and adopt these four practices as part of the implementation plan:

-Reducing the barriers to COPPS


-Providing incentives to all agency members to engage in COPPS


-Communicating to employees the vital role of COPPS in serving the public


-Show/train officers how to address problems

One very important positive aspect of considering whether or not to implement COPPS is that

it encourages many of the activities that patrol officers would like to do – to engage in more inquiry of crime and disorder and get more closure form their work.

An impact evaluation establishes whether

a COPPS initiative actually produced the successful outcomes.

Citizen survey information is used for a variety of reasons including: providing information to patrol officers, evaluating program effectiveness, and prioritizing crime and disorder.

providing information to patrol officers, evaluating program effectiveness, and prioritizing crime and disorder.

Additionally, surveys also seek information on the “mental state” of the community, and they frequently address issues such as these:

Attitudes towards police performance, fear of crime, future plans and intentions, concerns about specific problems, and suggestions for police actions.

One of the challenges in training officers in COPPS strategy is that

policing often attracts actionAoriented individuals – who tend to be more receptive to handsAon skills training.

Bloom’s taxonomy includes six learning activities:

Knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

Peter Senge’s concept of learning organizations applies to COPPS and he feels that organizations must allow its employees to

continually expand their capacity to nurture new and expansive patterns of thinking, allow their collective aspiration to be set free, and continually learn to see the whole picture.

Police officers prefer to be instructed by

other police officers.

Roll call meetings afford an excellent opportunity for

supervisors to update officer’s knowledge and present new ideas and techniques.

As seen in several chapters of the book, and heard in several lectures; The Center for Problem Oriented Policing makes readily accessible information about

ways in which police can more effectively address specific crime and disorder problems.

The best defense for the police in regards to racial profiling allegations may be summarized in two words: Collect data.

Collect data.

A hate crime (bias crime) is one that is motivated by an offender’s

bias against race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity/national origin, gender or age.

In the recruitment process, agencies should reach out to where prospects live, work, worship, and pray.

reach out to where prospects live, work, worship, and pray

Drug violations have

eroded the environment, created undesirable role models for youths, and given rise to a wide variety of related criminal acts.

Open-air drug markets represent

the lowest level of the drug distribution network.

A traditional police approach to a citizen’s call concerning drug activity typically involved

showing up, taking a report, and leaving.

Submarines (narco subs) are now being used by

drug cartels to smuggle drugs into the U.S.

The territorial type of gang graffiti is identified by

some sort of marking of a gang’s territory, often in the form of an arrow pointing down.

A significant feature of identity theft is that

the offenders repeated victimization of a single person.

Basically, Identity theft occurs when

one steals personal information from a victim, such as a social security number, date of birth, or credit card number, and opens accounts and/or makes purchases in that person’s name.

Identity theft is facilitated by crimes such as forgery, counterfeiting, check and credit card fraud, computer fraud, impersonation, pickpocketing, and even terrorism.

forgery, counterfeiting, check and credit card fraud, computer fraud, impersonation, pickpocketing, and even terrorism.

About 1/3rd of the adult homeless are

chronically mentally ill.

Regarding domestic violence, research findings recommended that

communities with low unemployment have mandatory arrest policies

COPPS, as in Austin, Texas, was fully implemented in a

five-year transition.

To professionalize problem solving, the Professional Executive Research Forum (PERF) and the San Diego, California police department founded the annual

POP conference.

In Arlington County Virginia, officers are

responsible for turfs instead of shifts.

Elmhurst, Illinois police use a “community sensing mechanism”

utilizes newspaper articles, editorials, and comments from the chamber of commerce to gauge officer evaluation.

Problem-Oriented Guides for Police cover a wide range of topics and include discussion of the

specific problem, some methods for understanding the nature of the problem, and some possible police responses.

Cybercrime will greatly challenge the police through such activities as

data manipulation, software piracy, industrial espionage, bankcard counterfeiting, and embezzlement.

Society of Police Futurists International (PFI) exists for the purpose of

planning and forecasting police operations.