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    Walking Patterns

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    From TABLE 7- 24, more observed than expected respondents who walked to visit neighbors reported availability of crosswalks and pedestrians signs as well as short spacing between intersections in their neighborhoods. Intuitively, providing safe locations for pedestrian-vehicular interaction should reduce instances of jaywalking. However studies have shown more pedestrian injuries at intersections and marked crosswalks compared to jay walking. This could be due to risky pedestrian and driver…

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    In community policing, there are two key players, the community, and the police. In order to achieve community policing, there must be an equal amount of effort put forth by both parties. One component of community policing is “community partnership.” In the community partnership component, the primary goal is to create an atmosphere of trust between the police and the community’s citizens. Once trust has been established, the community becomes an active part of helping the police identify…

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    two dimensions. The community must trust the police that its officers and philosophies are aligned with its own. In a world where communication is often remote and electronic, where police are a persistent, courteous physical presence, police correspondingly overcome modern digital communications barriers (Klingele, Scott & Dickey, 2010: 2-3). Community policing encourages a sense of physical oneness and interdependency between officers and citizens. Where there is frequent, positive personal…

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    (Flynn, 2008.) Law enforcement agencies can only prevent to a certain degree with background investigations, however unless an offender has a previous record they are useless. In this instance it was the universities duty to deem Cho mentally unstable as they had the pertinent information to do so. Cho had been found to be a danger to himself or others by a justice of Montgomery County General District Court on December 14 2005 (Schaenman, 2009). Therefore under federal law, disqualifies him…

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    Response Policing

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    without increasing staff. However, Jordan (1988) cited in Joyce (2011) argues, the response model lacks efficiency at effectively deterring crime. Lord Scarman was also critical of the response model in the Scarman Report (1981), and argues that Police Officers have become detached and remote from their community. Herman Goldstein introduced the Problem Orientated Policing (POP) approach and replaced patrolling by responding to crime when it was reported. Police departments made key decisions to…

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    Traditional Policing Model

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    Police use the notion of moral panic created by the media in order to drum up support to expand their powers, resources and personnel. A key example of the interplay of traditional models of policing can be seen in the introduction of anti-terrorism laws within the last decade, specifically such acts as The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Legislation Amendment Act 2003 and the Anti-Terrorism Bill (No. 2) 2005 which passed through the Australian Parliament in 2005 (Rix 2006, p.2).…

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    The United States receives 85,000 refugees annually and many law enforcement agencies do not know how to begin the assimilation process (International Rescue Committee, 2016). One of the most challenging task for today’s law enforcement is integrating refugees with the western culture. Law enforcement agencies are faced with challenging and complex issues that demands tailored solutions. There are multiple barriers that must be overcome when dealing with refugee communities; for example,…

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    is political repercussions. For this approach, when a justice makes a decision, he has to think about the repercussions of his decision. The last and sixth approach is legal considerations. For this approach, court decisions can be influenced by the law or legal…

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    said by Jill Castellano. As every year passes since the incident, it is less likely a student will encounter a potential dangerous situation on campus. We can attribute this to ALICE training, Blue-Light phones, Public Safety Officials such as law enforcement, crime prevention information, crime…

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    Reentry programs have been developed to assist the offender with a successful transition from prison to the community. Prisoner reentry has become a major topic as communities are seeing a greater number of prisoners released each year. In 2008, 683,106 inmates were released from state and federal prisons which is a 20 percent increase in the number of inmates released in 2000 (Wikoff, Linhorst, & Morani, 2012, p. 289). In 1999, Attorney General Janet Reno asked criminal justice officials to…

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