Ch 6 - Police Strategies and Operations Flashcards
professional model of policing
A model of police work that is reactive, incident driven, and centred on random patrol.
community policing
A philosophy of policing centred on police-community partnerships and problem solving.
community-based strategic policing
A model of police work that incorporates the key principles of community policing with crime prevention, crime response, and crime attack approaches.
compstat
A strategy designed to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of police services while holding police personnel accountable for achieving crime reduction objectives.
intelligence-led policing
Policing that is guided by the collection and analysis of information that is used to inform police decision making at both the tactical and the strategic level.
secondary crime prevention programs
Programs that focus on areas that produce crime and disorder.
zero tolerance policing
A police strategy that focuses on disorder and minor infractions; most often associated w/ the broken windows approach to policing a community.
quality-of-life policing
Police efforts to improve conditions in an area by targeting disruptive and annoying behaviour.
problem-oriented policing (POP)
A tactical strategy based on the idea that the police should address the causes of recurrent crime and disorder.
crime attack strategies
Proactive operations by the police to target and apprehend criminal offenders.
tertiary crime prevention
Programs that focus on intervening in the lives of known offenders to reduce the likelihood of reoffending.
clearance rates
The proportion of the actual incidents known to the police that result in the identification of a suspect, whether or not that suspect is ultimately charged and convicted.
crime displacement
The relocation - because of effective crime prevention and crime response initiatives - of criminal activity from one locale to another.
