Learning Objectives

  1. Identify the factors that gave rise to community and problem-oriented policing and the strategies tried by police departments prior to these efforts
     
  2. Define community policing and discuss what is known about the overall effectiveness of it
     
  3. Explain why it may be difficult for the police to change citizens’ attitudes toward them
     
  4. Define the concept of procedural justice and discuss why it may be difficult for the police to actually create it
     
  5. Discuss the SARA model of problem solving and discuss examples of it being used in police departments to address crime problems
     
  6. Evaluate what is known about the overall effectiveness of problem-oriented policing