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Assignment:
Identify and describe some alternative responses to crime that law enforcement can use rather than rapid response to calls.
There is a lot that law enforcement can do to respond to calls. Dependent of the dispatcher, it is several things they can do especially if there is a non-violent call like a verbal altercation without weapons or even things like noise complaints. DPR or differential police response systems may include a number of response options. One of those is a delayed response by patrol units. For any of the types of calls to which a rapid response is not essential when neither lives or property are in jeopardy and neither serious offenders or evidence will vanish a dispatcher can place the call in a queue, awaiting the availability of the unit assigned to the area in which the call originated. Response may be deliberately delayed for thirty minutes, an hour, or longer. Responses to such calls are often delayed even without DPR, but with DPR the delay is by design, and the response protocol specifies that the caller be informed of the likely delay. Other options are relief responses, which divert calls from the patrol dispatch queue altogether. Some kinds of calls may be handled by dispatching nonsworn civilian personnel or a sworn specialist such as community policing officers, while others may be referred to other agencies for assistance. Other types of requests, law enforcement my take from callers may be asked to give reports over the phone, to mail a report to the police, to come to the police station to complete a report, to complete a report over the Internet, or to schedule an appointment with a specialist. Reports may be of minor motor vehicle accidents or of minor crimes typically, offenses in which the loss for example, from theft or damage for example, from vandalism is under a specified dollar threshold and in which no physical evidence or other leads are available. Research has shown that in such cases, the likelihood of apprehending offenders is very low, and in many departments cases with such low solvability are not even assigned to detectives for follow-up investigation. One final thing that could also help police responses to call is community policing. Having like a crime watch prevention team in place controlled by the community could be a big help. While police have bigger things to do, like responding to violent crimes which a priority, could follow up with the crime prevention team in a timely manner and write final reports on what was documented by the watch team. If we think about it, it will almost be like how they did things in early policing.
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In these past years, there has been a lot of outcry from people that police officers shouldn’t respond to every call, especially if it’s someone having a mental health episode for example. People say that there shouldn’t be armed officers in those situations because it makes the situation worse. What some organizations like LEAP and CAP are proposing is that city’s should establish a form of civilian first responders which would be called “community responders”. These community responders would be dispatched to low-risk 911 calls, where an armed officer wouldn’t be necessary. This idea of community responders, is similar to Community Service Officers which is what we have in Jacksonville. A Community Service Officer, responds to non-priority calls, traffic accidents, and sometimes helps at events like concerts for example. The idea of not having police officers respond to every call is a good idea, but it also comes with flaws because sometimes even the most simple dispatch call can turn dangerous. In my opinion, I feel like the system that JSO has with their CSO’s works and it helps police officers focus on more important calls or crimes, but I feel like what LEAP and CAP are trying to establish isn’t going to be really effective.
References: Irwin, Amos & Pearl, Betsy.(October 2020). The community responder model.Retrieved from: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/criminal-justice/reports/2020/10/28/492492/community-responder-model/ (Links to an external site.)
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