Compstat has improved policing ever since it was introduced in the 1990s. Compstat is a system that is used by police agencies to reduce crime as well as achieving other departmental goals. Some of department goals are developing good relationship with the community as well as empowering commanders together with their subordinates. It focuses on sharing information, responsibility, fostering accountability, as well as improving tactics used to solve crime. Although, it has also been criticized for been incompatible with the community, inflexible and undermining some goals of policing, it is still acknowledged as an important organizational development in policing during the latter half of the 20th century (BJA, police executive research …show more content…
For instance groups such as the task forces, robbery suppression teams, narcotics units and SWAT (special weapons and tactics). Individually these groups have skill sets that are effective in fighting specific crimes. However collectively the combined skills of these groups can be fully effective in fighting crime and bring about reduction at the same time. One of compstat strengths is that it encourages teamwork between different groups within a precinct and different precincts within a department. This is one advantage of compstat it allows the flow of information. In Shane’s article he mentioned that to attaining realistic results, teams would have to join resources in order to achieve it (Shane, 2004).
For crime to be reduced relentless follow-up and assessment should be done. It encourages progressive review of the department to ensure reduction in crime patterns; annual meeting are held to review statistics and crime reports. This meeting ensures that departments, commanders, supervisors and patrol officers are executing effective strategies and proper use of resources. At the same time it could be mean reprimanding commanders in front of their subordinates which is a setback for a program which seek to empower (Shane,
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Organizations are encouraged to adapt and changes their tactics to combat crime. The method has also been adopted by other law enforcement agencies. Other agencies including Los Angeles police department and Philadelphia police department. For example, Bill Bratton took it to Los Angeles Police Department, John Timoney brought it to Philadelphia and Gary McCarthy broaden compstat in Chicago (BJA, 2012).
In conclusion, compstat as a model can be viewed in differently. From a Police Department’s perspective compstat couldn’t have come any time sooner. For the Chief Commander it could be bittersweet; bring both success, sometimes issues but might create negative vibe from his/her subordinates. But for the patrol officers compstat is what shapes his/her relationship with the community and as well as community views on their job to protect their
The COMPSTAT ( Compare-Statistics) system was developed by the New York Police Department in 1994 and is credited with having a significant impact on the reduction of major crimes in New York city. COMPSTAT is internationally recognized as having become an extremely successful tool, incorporating accurate crime intelligence analysis methods and streamlining law enforcement management processes, including the seeding of power to local district commanders. In broad strokes, COMPSTAT can be described as a series of process used for the collection and analysis of criminal intelligence data which in turn assists commanders in developing effective strategies and tactics to combat crime.
How secure and safe does your neighborhood seem? That is a question most ask themselves when moving or living in a specific geographical location. People with young children are assumed to worry the most because they cannot always keep a steady look out for them. CompSTAT is a policing model that most police departments use more often than none. CompSTAT is short for computer statistics. It is used as a technique to try to prevent or reduce crime from happening. This is when neighbor or citizens that reside in a specific location report worries or crimes where
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Policing is a very difficult, complex and dynamic field of endeavor that is always evolves as hard lessons teach us what we need to know about what works and what don’t work. There are three different Era’s in America’s policing: The Political Era, The Reform Era, and The Community Problem Solving Era. A lot has changed in the way that policing works over the years in the United States.
Part One The Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment: An Introduction According to Kelling, Pate, Dieckman, & Brown (1974), patrol is the “backbone” of police work. This belief is based around the premise that the mere presence of police officers on patrol prohibits criminal activity. Despite increasing budgets and the availability of more officers on the streets, crime rates still rose with the expanding metropolitan populations (Kelling et al., 1974).
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American policing originated from early English law and is profoundly influenced by its history. Early law enforcement in England took on two forms of policing, one of which heavily influenced modern policing and it is known as the watch (Potter, 2013). The watch consisted, at first, of volunteers which had to patrol the streets for any kind of disorder including crime and fire. After men attempted to get out of volunteering by paying others, it became a paid professional position (Walker & Katz, 2012). The three eras of policing in America are shaped by these early ideas and practices of law enforcement. Throughout time, sufficient improvements and advancements have been made from the political era to the professional era and finally the community era which attempts to eliminate corruption, hire qualified officers and create an overall effective law enforcement system.
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One of those programs is the New York Police Department’s CompStat. The New York Police Department’s CompStat made a profound impact on troubled neighborhoods in New York. This program was first was introduced Officer Jack Maple and was implemented in the New York Police Department under police commissioner William Bratton (Manning, 2013). According to Manning (2013), the New York Police Department’s CompStat is a computer program that analyzes crime data and combines it with problem solving technologies to identify crime patterns and problems. CompStat embraces the targeted maps of areas with high criminal activity and uses criminal reports and cases to focus on reducing crime in those areas, Because of its implementation, the program helped reduce various percentages of crime including murder rates and subway crimes. Law enforcement agencies around the world are now introducing their own versions of CompStat to decrease crime rates and reduce social disorganization within certain
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This innovative strategy allows law enforcement officers to achieve a level of respect and cooperation of the community through close working relationships between the citizens and the agency. “The key to infusing community policing throughout the department is by restructuring agency management, in particular making changes
Community oriented policing has been around for over 30 years, and promotes and supports organizational strategies to address the causes, and reduce the fear of crime and social disorder through problem solving tactics. The way community policing works is it requires the police and citizens to work together to increase safety for the public. Each community policing program is different depending on the needs of the community. There have been five consistent key elements of an effective community oriented policing program: Adopting community service as the overarching philosophy of the organization, making an institutional commitment to community policing that is internalized throughout the command structure, emphasizing geographically decentralized models of policing that stress services tailored to the needs of individual communities rather than a one-size-fits-all approach for the entire jurisdiction, empowering citizens to act in partnership with the police on issues of crime and more broadly defined social problems, for example, quality-of-life issues, and using problem-oriented or problem-solving approaches involving police personnel working with community members. Community oriented policing has improved the public’s perception of the police in a huge way. Community policing builds more relationships with the
Crime Analysis has many benefits to the community. Community engagement, targeted initiatives, strategic use of resources, and data-driven decision-making contribute to decreasing crime. Crime prevention and community satisfaction with police services, while linked to the number of officers on the streets, does not depend entirely on the visibility of patrol officers. Community engagement, targeted initiatives, strategic use of resources, and data-driven decision-making contribute to decreasing crime. So in closing I believe that departments that take the positive elements of foot patrols and combine their efforts with crime analysis that focuses on the time, location, and type of crime, may use the findings to develop strategies to decrease crime and enhance the quality of life in their communities.
To conclude, Community policing represents a major development in the history of American law enforcement, but the extent to which this approach is a success and dominates contemporary policing remains a source of debate. In my point of view, community policing is good for communities. It has challenged the traditional concept of the police as crime-fighters by drawing attention to the complexities of the police role and function. In addition to the police officer hard work; citizens can also make a difference and contribute to make neighborhoods a better place to live. For instance, citizens can hold community meetings to talk about concerns and agree on solutions help organize healthy activities for children in your neighborhood, join or starting a neighborhood crime watch program, and talk to your community police officers and share information and concerns.