Preventive Patrol Experiment : The Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment

I will start with fifteen officers from the Tupelo Police Department. The list consists of five street officers, three administrators, and seven training officers. These officers range from a mixture of statuses to get an idea as to who hires, what training is implemented, and the affects of that training on the streets. The area selected is a rural area in Lee County. I will get an official informed consent signed by the mayor of Tupelo to conduct the study and I will get an official copy signed by the chief of Tupelo Police Department, and the officers involved.

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.

1. The results of the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment were really surprising to the public and the police. What do you think were the main reasons why different levels of motorized patrol failed to have any impact on crime or public perception? (p. 93)

The Kansas City Preventative Patrol Experiment was conducted in October 1972 by the Kansas City Police to test the effects of marked police patrol units on the incidence of crime to deter crime and ended in 1973. The experiment lasted over a year and was evaluated by the Police Foundation, established by the Ford Foundation, which also provided funding and technical assistance for the education of police. The Kansas City Preventative Patrol Experiment in policing ranked among the few major social experiments ever to be completed and still used today in American policing. (Kelling, G. L., Pate, T., Dieckman, D., & Brown, C. E., 1974)

I believe preventive patrol is effective because of the deterrence theory. People who plan to commit a crime do not want to get caught. I also think that some people will probably get nervous if a police officer keeps passing by when they plan to commit a crime and might wonder if the police noticed them. However, cop cars pass by in seconds, so I am glad other methods of patrol are being used like foot patrol, bicycle patrol, and mounted patrol. Even if preventive patrols weren’t effective, they still make a presence in the community, which is important. Making a presence could familiarize a neighborhood with a police officer. For example, the first day my son learned how to unlock the front door, he did so when i was showering. He went outside

Commanders and supervisors have the ultimate responsibility to ensure the integrity and reputation of the agency through the fair and equitable investigation of internal matters and application of disciplinary procedures.

I am respectfully requesting consideration for a Special Detail Assignment for 2016 as a member of the FBI Safe Streets Task Force. I have over eleven years of police experience with various duties and responsibilities. In my current School Resource Officer assignment I have gained experience investigating incident reports related to both property crimes and crimes against persons. Many of these investigations had very little suspect information and were related to crimes such as false bomb calls, assault, vandalism, burglary, theft and arson. In many of these cases, I was able to identify suspects and effect arrests. I have assisted the Gang Unit, the Major Crimes Task Force and the Detective Bureau in conducting probation and parole compliance checks, criminal investigations, vice details, surveillance details and serving search warrants. I have a good working relationship with members of the department, outside agencies and members of the community.

If I was the Chief of Police, at Kansas City Police Department at the time of the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment in 1972; my preventive patrol versus random patrol strategies would be based on the idea that visible police presence would target the "hot spots" in an area with unmarked units wearing plain clothes. My officers would provide a general deterrent effect on crime, and that same police presence would reduce the general public's fear of crime. However, my officers will be using unmarked units and wearing plain clothes to form a relationship with the public. It is through directed patrols dosage in specific zones or hot spots, and through the use of strategically defined objectives during patrol activities, that the effectiveness

A second key point was splitting the Kansas City South patrol area into three police beats. Beats are territories and time’s that a police officer patrols. The first beat acted as the proactive patrol which police patrols were altered two to three times the usual level. The second beat was the reactive patrol were no patrol routine was used at all. Lastly, the control beat kept the patrol level the same prior to the start of the experiment.

The purpose of this study was to see how effective routine preventive patrol is. The first beat is the reactive beats, which included five beats where patrol was withdrawn and police officers only entered the beats to respond to calls and had to leave as soon as the call was taken care of. The second beat is the proactive beats which also contained five beats which contained two or three times the normal level of patrolling. The last five, control beats, had normal patrolling in the area. Victimization, citizen fear of crime, citizen attitudes toward the police, and police response time to calls where all looked at during this study. . The study showed that there were no major differences in any of the three types of beats. Also, this study showed that the majority of the citizens did not realize the patrol levels had been

The COP pilot program’s mission is to form an increased partnership with police and communities. Traditional policing alone is insufficient to deal with the many problems plaguing communities. Community residents as well can’t solely manage crime and disorder problems without police help.

The studies consisted of three designs. First, compared the attitude of the foot patrol. Second, studied reported crime in areas. Third, used matched of beats in Newark to compare the effects of conditioning and discounting foot police(Foundation, 1981). Foot patrol over all was used mainly at night. It protected the citizens but the merchants, from the merchant's standpoint. The citizens felt safety for the most part. Foot Patrol may be used as an important part of police strategies to cope with problems in congested urban areas and also as

Foot Patrols of Newark, NJ found that foot patrols to reduce fear of crime ( Pate, 1986) but do not reduce geral incidences of crime (kelling, 1981), and also improve perception of the police. The causal mechanism that was hypothesized to reduce crime was the footpatrol. The footpatrol was meant to show presence and deter would be offenders. The actual policing the foot patrols did varied from community oriented to proactive policing.

When an area has been identified as a “hot spot” law enforcement has a multitude of options to begin the corrective steps in the area. An experiment conducted in 2012 in Jacksonville, Florida by Bruce G. Taylor, Christopher S. Koper, and Daniel J. Wood was the first study to compare different hot spot enforcements techniques or applications in one study. One hot spot area received a more standard heavy presence of marked patrol cars otherwise known as a saturation detail and the other area was exposed to a problem-oriented policing technique

Finding a better way to prevent crime is a way of the police officer. The best way do so when having knowledge of certain crimes in area is to increase the police presence. It could be your marked cars that work the beat regularly, or it could be an undercover who sits in an unmarked vehicle waiting for something to happen in order to eliminate the issue. All police officers have in their mind to prevent crime one way or another. The title does not matter, or the rank. A cop is a cop, and the job of a cop is crime prevention. I agree that experiment was flawed. The experiment had limitations, and those limitations were restricted to patrol only. “The use of patrol beats as the unit of analysis meant that the overall analysis was based on only