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An 11 page research paper on police effectiveness in terms of two examples, domestic violence and community policing . The writer details the changes in each area, with statistics and responses. Pros and cons to each approach are discussed. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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enforcement as bad publicity more frequently causes the public to wonder. While crimes statistics in many areas show a downward trend, people wonder about the response time of the
police and whether the measures currently being employed will in fact make them safer. Distrust and fear of the police is at an all time high. Due to various
high profile cases in the news, there are a number of hot issues where police policies and responses are being criticized and studied for change. Among these are the
response to domestic violence and the overall philosophy of community based policing versus mere reaction to crime as reported. While these do not exhaust the issues concerning police effectiveness,
they are illustrative of what is of concern to police departments around the country today. Until relatively recently, domestic violence was largely ignored by police as a no-win situation in
which prosecution was unlikely. However, recently arrest has become the preferred way to respond to domestic violence situations. This is backed up with reducing the control prosecutors give
victims over whether cases are tried, and with increasing use of victim protection orders and court-ordered treatment of offenders (Davis 541). It must be noted that police were not
unjustified in their reluctance to arrest perpetrators in the past. It was not uncommon for charges to be dropped once the immediate violence stopped, and the noncooperation of the
victim was a great source of frustration, as was the seemingly never-ending cycle of calls from the same parties. This was a situation which could not have been solved
effectively by only the police. As with many problems in law enforcement, it can only be improved by analogous changes in the courts and the prosecution arenas. The
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