Crime Reporting and Rates Response
Checkpoint: Crime Reporting and Rates Response
The crime reporting programs is to keep track of the five W’s which is when, where, and what types of crimes that took place along with who and why and report it. This informs the public on how to react to crime and how the crime fighters fight crime in the community the crime program is used by different law enforcement agencies in order to reduce crime rates, the criminal reporting activity is used to see is crime increasing or decreasing in the communities. If the crime reporting program is going to be successful the information must be accurate, because when the information is not accurate the program will not be a successful. All crimes must be reported but many of the cases do not get reported and that causes certain crimes in the communities to fall through the cracks. The police officer solves crimes measure by the Clearance rates. The Conflict Theory deals with the arrest and rate of the crime rates to clearance rates and the conflict theory also tells how the clearance rates can cause offices to focus on appearing to solve crimes instead of really solving them.
Our text example: of how the cops that catch a burglar and convince this burglar to confess to other burglaries that he did not commit in exchange for testimony on his behalf by the cops. The burglar confessed cases were cleared. The cops did not arrest the burglars of the other crimes. Various police forces have different ways of measuring clearance rates. (Schmalleger, 2011)
References:
Schmalleger, F. (2011). Criminal Justice Today: An introductory text for the twenty-first century (11th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ. Pearson Prentice Hall
World Encyclopedia of Police Forces and Correctional Systems, 2nd
The crime reporting programs is to keep track of the five W’s which is when, where, and what types of crimes that took place along with who and why and report it. This informs the public on how to react to crime and how the crime fighters fight crime in the community the crime program is used by different law enforcement agencies in order to reduce crime rates, the criminal reporting activity is used to see is crime increasing or decreasing in the communities. If the crime reporting program is going to be successful the information must be accurate, because when the information is not accurate the program will not be a successful. All crimes must be reported but many of the cases do not get reported and that causes certain crimes in the communities to fall through the cracks. The police officer solves crimes measure by the Clearance rates. The Conflict Theory deals with the arrest and rate of the crime rates to clearance rates and the conflict theory also tells how the clearance rates can cause offices to focus on appearing to solve crimes instead of really solving them.
Our text example: of how the cops that catch a burglar and convince this burglar to confess to other burglaries that he did not commit in exchange for testimony on his behalf by the cops. The burglar confessed cases were cleared. The cops did not arrest the burglars of the other crimes. Various police forces have different ways of measuring clearance rates. (Schmalleger, 2011)
References:
Schmalleger, F. (2011). Criminal Justice Today: An introductory text for the twenty-first century (11th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ. Pearson Prentice Hall
World Encyclopedia of Police Forces and Correctional Systems, 2nd
References: Schmalleger, F. (2011). Criminal Justice Today: An introductory text for the twenty-first century (11th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ. Pearson Prentice Hall World Encyclopedia of Police Forces and Correctional Systems, 2nd ed