Targeted policing
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Targeted policing
Targeted policing happens when the police need to identify the reason for certain crimes in the desire to end them. Targeted policing means that the police are mainly targeted to the roots of the criminal activity happening and the desire to end the issue at the root level. There are many types of targeted policing, and some of them are place-specific, time-specific, offense-specific, and offender-specific. This paper discusses the different types of targeted policing.
Firstly, a place-specific kind of policing is prevalent. The police investigate the different reasons why certain kinds of criminal activities only happen at a particular place. For example, there are known hotspots for drug use, Kensington (Braga & Barao, 2019). When the police investigate a place like Kensington, they try very hard to get to the bottom of the issue and deal with the roots. The other type of targeted policing is offense-specific; this means that the police will be involved in finding out the reason as to why a particular offense was committed and take mitigations to prevent that in the future ( Avdija, 2008). Offender-related policing has to do with the specific person who committed the offense. This means that if a person commits an offense like murdering another one, the police will look into the murderer and why they did that act.
Place policing is different in many ways from the other two types of policing discussed since some places are very easy for a person to commit a crime. In contrast, other places do not encourage criminal activities. The places which attract criminal activities do that for a reason (Stafford, 2008). Offense policing, on the other hand, deals with specific offenses and not places or offenders. Offender policing looks into the specific offender and not the act. Even though these three are related and one might result in the other, the investigations’ basics and goals remain fixed and are always followed.
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Avdija, A. S. (2008). Evidence-Based Policing: A Comparative Analysis of Eight Experimental Studies focused in the area of Targeted Policing. International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences, 3(2).
Braga, A. A., & Barao, L. (2019). Targeted Policing for Crime Reduction. In Handbook on Crime and Deviance (pp. 341-354). Springer, Cham.
Stafford, S. L. (2008). Self-policing is a targeted enforcement regime. Southern Economic Journal, 934-951.
