Assignment Task: Police Effectiveness
For the midterm, you will choose 4 of the 8 questions. Be very clear about which questions you are answering by numbering your answers to correspond with the question numbers.
Question 1: Discuss the importance of context in implementing police innovations. How does the Evidence Based Policing Matrix help police practitioners to consider context in a practical way?
Question 2: Identify three central challenges to meaningfully implementing community policing. Explain why you think each is a challenge
Question 3: What is the main role of collective efficacy in crime reduction, and how can it be incorporated into broken windows enforcement? Need Assignment Help?
Question 4: Identify and discuss three major issues of Operation Ceasefire.
Question 5: In the conclusion of this chapter (p 57) it is stated that Marciniak (2021) found that "the effects of arrests on the offending were highly dependent on the social strength of community characteristics where suspects resided." [Direct quote used to help you locate the information in the chapter.]
Based on what you've read so far, would you expect this finding? Why or why not?
Question 6: What role has technology come to play in de-escalating force situations with the public? What role can body worn cameras play in this specifically?
Question 7: Why was it important for the researchers to adopt a mixed method design to answer their research questions?
Question 8: What are adversarial offenses? Is this a concept that would have been identified by nonpractitioner researchers? Why or why not?