Full Description
Implementing effective crime reduction requires deliberate thought and effort to integrate processes into the police organization, its culture, and the day-to-day work. Stratified Policing: An Organizational Model for Proactive Crime Reduction and Accountability provides police leaders a clear path for institutionalization of crime reduction modeled after current police processes. It sets up an organization to more easily incorporate evidence-based strategies into everyday operations with the goal of changing a police organization from reactive to proactive. Stratified Policing incorporates what works for crime reduction and how to realistically make it work in police practice. The book details the specific and adaptable framework that infuses small changes by rank and division into daily activities that build on each other resulting in a comprehensive and focused approach for crime reduction. It also lays out a multifaceted accountability process that is fair and transparent. Importantly, the book dedicates entire chapters to methods for developing crime reduction goals, addressing immediate, short-term, and long-term crime and disorder problems, and implementing a stratified accountability meeting structure. Chapters include specific recommendations supported by research and grounded in what is realistic in police practice for application of evidence-based strategies, assignment of responsibility and accountability, crime analysis products, and assessment measures for impact on crime and disorder. The book is a culmination of the authors' 15 years of work and will synthesize their research, other publications on stratified policing, and provide new material for police leaders and professionals who are seeking an organizational structure to institutionalize crime reduction strategies into their day to day operations.
Contents
Chapter 1: Understanding Crime, Criminals, and What Works in Proactive Policing
Understanding Crime and Criminals
What Works in Proactive Crime Reduction
Conclusion
Chapter 2: Police Culture and Proactive Crime Reduction
Cultural Barriers to Institutionalizing Proactive Crime Reduction
Institutionalizing Proactive Crime Reduction into Police Culture
Chapter 3: The Stratified Policing Model and Framework
Problem Stratification
Stratified Policing and the Problem-Solving Process
Integration of Evidence-Based Proactive Strategies
Stratification and the Role of Crime Analysis
Stratification of Crime Reduction Responsibility by Rank
Stratified Structure of Accountability
Summary of the Stratified Policing Framework
Chapter 4: Developing Crime Reduction Goals for Stratified Policing
Responsibility for Crime Reduction Goals
Development of Crime Reduction Goals
Specifying Crime Reduction Goals
Crime Reduction Goals: Practical Examples
Crime Reduction Goal Assessment Process
Chapter 5: Immediate Crime Reduction: Significant Incidents
Assigned Responsibility: Investigations Supervisors
Identification, Analysis, and Response to Significant Incidents
Assessment and Accountability
Stratified Policing Significant Incident Process Overview
Chapter 6: Short-Term Crime Reduction: Repeat Incidents
Assigned Responsibility: Patrol Supervisors
Identification and Analysis of Repeat Incident Locations
Response to Repeat Incident Locations
Accountability and Assessment
Stratified Policing Repeat Incident Process Overview
Applying the Repeat Incident Process for Domestic Violence
Chapter 7: Short-Term Crime Reduction: Crime Patterns
Assigned Responsibility: Patrol Managers
Identification and Analysis of Crime Patterns
Response to Crime Patterns
Assessment and Accountability
Stratified Policing Crime Pattern Process Overview
Practice-Based Research: Effectiveness of Response to Micro-Time Hot Spots
Chapter 8: Long-Term Crime Reduction: Problem Offenders, Problem Locations, and Problem Areas
Problem Offenders
Problem Locations
Problem Areas
Long-Term Problems: Accountability Meetings and Documentation
Stratified Policing Long-Term Problem Process Overview
Chapter 9: Accountability and Meeting Structure
Organizational Adjustments for Accountability
Stratified Policing Accountability Meeting Structure and Evaluation
Summary of Accountability Meetings
Final Thoughts
