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This 4 page paper discusses what a police chief in a small city might consider as threats, and how he would allocate police personnel to meet them. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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what the chief of a 25-person department in a small Midwestern American town might do in devising a plan for policing the jurisdiction. Discussion The information in this paper must
of necessity be general, because the needs of each town or other jurisdiction will be different. What the chief should do is use the information available from the FBI, other
law enforcement agencies, and his/her own officers to determine the types of crimes committed most frequently in the jurisdiction. Once he knows whether he is dealing with violent crime, blue-collar
crime, identity theft, computer crime, burglary, etc., he can decide much more easily what resources he needs and how to deploy them. The student will find that a search for
something like "crime rate in small towns" will bring up a large number of sources that say violent crime in small towns and cities is on the increase despite the
fact that overall, the crime rate is down. The problem is serious: "Violent crime, once mainly the purview of big urban centers, is now growing in many small and mid-size
cities" (Jonsson, 2004). In those areas where "aggressive policing" is used (usually the major cities), there has been a drop in the overall crime rate (Jonsson, 2004). But as the
overall rate came down, "... towns like Springfield, Mass.; Victoria, Texas; and Hattiesburg, Miss.; are now seeing a rise in murder, assaults, and other violent incidents" (Jonsson, 2004). Experts
are unable to reach a consensus on the reasons for the upswing; some say the tougher policing in cities has chased the criminals into the smaller towns while other blame
a lack of good jobs and a "culture of violence that has seeped into small-town America" (Jonsson, 2004). Still others believe that towns and smaller cities are in the position
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