The Kansas City Police Preventive Patrol Experiment and on Crime Rates the Effect

Document Type:Research Paper

Subject Area:Law

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The articles cover research that sought results that may have an impact on response time and one-man vs. two-man units to include the Kansas City Experiment. The role of the police in any country is to repress crime and protect the state from the effects of crime. The police force activity relies heavily on the available manpower available to be deployed in any given area to suppress crime, the available technology like automobiles, DNA analysis techniques and the cooperation from the citizens in terms providing information to the intelligence and providing testimonies (Walker & Katz, 2011). This paper will exploit the experiments and analyses on police patrol services to the community and their subsequent effect on the levels of crime, taking the Kansas City as the case study.

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If the police have a soured relationship with the public, numerous crimes would go unreported and eventually the crime rate will rise to unprecedented levels. The education both the police and the citizen is therefore very core in ridding of the perceived hostility between the two. While proactive crime proves to be more desirable than reactive one, an effectively high percentage of arrest and successful prosecution brings any subsequent similar occurrences of crimes to minimal values. Police Administrators have to invest more in the hiring of personnel with relevant skills including carrying out technical investigations that aid in the prosecution of criminal activities. The state departments should channel funds in the setting up special police units that would specifically be dedicated to fighting crime.

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This system is a national forensic database for all convicted offenders and for unconcluded cases. Subsequent offenders and convicts can be successfully being identified by the system when they commit any felonies again. Undercover officers and citizens who can be police informants can be trained to work with the police to curb criminal activities. Apart from policing drugs, they can assist the police to monitor illegal activities like smuggling guns by organized gangs that have commercialized crime (Walker & Katz, 2011). Once the gangs and gun menace is done away with, crime rates will significantly go down. , & Kappeler, V.  E.  Police operations: Analysis and evaluation. Cincinnati, OH: Anderson Pub. Eng Leong, C. doi:10. 1177/0193841x8000400605 Walker, S. , & Katz, C.  M.  The Police in America.

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