What are some examples of community policing?

Indeed, some of the most successful examples of community policing strategies at work are when police services are provided or co-located with other civic services such as paying utility bills or obtaining parking permits.

What does reactive patrol mean?

Reactive policing is simply the police responding to a citizen’s call for service. A citizen calls the police and the police respond to the call and takes appropriate action. In reactive policing, police generally do not take initiative.

What does community based policing look like?

Community policing emphasizes proactive problem solving in a systematic and routine fashion. Rather than responding to crime only after it occurs, community policing encourages agencies to proactively develop solutions to the immediate underlying conditions contributing to public safety problems.

What is the difference between reactive patrol and proactive patrol?

Proactive policing can be described as preventing crime, while reactive policing involves responding to a crime that is taking place right now or that has already taken place. Proactive policing has a preventative role, while reactive policing is responsible for obtaining justice during or after criminal activity.

Why is discretion viewed as an essential feature of policing?

Discretion increases as one moves down the policing organizational hierarchy. Because patrol officers are the lowest-ranking employees, they make the decisions that produce actual police policy as it affects citizens. Through their discretion, police officers are the gatekeepers of the criminal justice system.

What are the biggest factors that affect police discretion and how do they affect it?

Characteristics of the suspect — Demeanor, style of dress and grooming may influence police discretion. Poorly groomed suspects can expect less respectful treatment. Some officers treat men and woman differently. Very rarely will an officer arrest a woman.

Are African American students getting the education they need and deserve?

Yet, too many African American students still are not getting the quality education they need and deserve, and the performance of African American students lags far behind that of white students.

What percentage of African American students go to urban schools?

While many African American students, 46 percent, attend urban schools, more than half, 54 percent, now attend schools in suburbs, towns, or rural areas. And while about halfof African American students attend schools where the majority of students are African American, 26 percentattend schools where most students are white.

What are the challenges faced by African Americans today?

African Americans have been exposed to generations of legal and illegal measures to deny them basic rights. From slavery to Jim Crow and to today’s housing, health care, and voting inequities, the African American community has endured unrelenting racism that begins at an early age (Gilliam 2014; Gershenson & Dee 2017).

What is the impact of school on African Americans?

School performance constrains the future opportunities of many African Americans. When matched for social class, the gap in educational achievement between African Americans and other groups is substantial. African American children, on average, score lower on tests and are given lower grades than Asian, White, and Latino students.