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Crime Prevention
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C.B.P. is working, we need to know; are we solving problems instead of
reacting to them? Are police officers encouraged to leave their patrol
cars and cooperate with the public? Do we have streets free of drug
dealers, rowdy teenagers, soliciting prostitutes, predatory criminals,
graffiti or drive by shootings? In conclusion C.B.P. is striving to
build stronger more self sufficient communities, in which, crime and
disorder do not thrive. Effective C.B.P. has a positive impact on
reducing neighborhood crime, helps reduce fear of crime, and enhances the
quality of life in the community; It accomplishes this by combining the
efforts and the resources of the police, local government, and community
members. Crime prevention takes on renewed importance in C.B.P. AND the
community becomes a partner to law enforcement in order to address
disorder and neglect or other problems that can breed serious crime. As
links between the police and the community are strengthened over time, the
partnership is better able to pinpoint and mitigate the underlying causes
of crime. Following all these principles we can at least attain a new
sense of community and at best we can make true the vision of Sir Robert
Peel “It should be understood at the outset that the object to be
attained is the prevention of crime. To this, great and every effort,
of the police is to be directed. The security of person and property and
the preservation of a police establishment will thus be better affected
than by the detection and punishment of the offender after he has
succeeded in committing the crime” . . . (Braiden 120)
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Chris. “Enriching traditional police roles” Police management: Issues and
perspectives.
Washington, DC. Police executive research forum 1992,
Pg. 108,120 Eck, John E. and William Spelman,” Problem solving: Problem
oriented policing” in Newport
News. Washington, DC: Police executive
research forum, 1987 Pg xvi-xvii Kelling, George L. and Mark