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Firstly Corey P Haberman, Elizabeth R Groff, Jerry H Ratcliff, and Evan T. Sorg in "Satisfaction with Police and Violent Crime Hotspots” entails various citizens perceptions in Philadelphia about how effective their police forces are when dealing with high threat level violent crimes. The civilian perspective should help with addressing the main point of this paper; mainly police tactics and how they operate within high-profile crime areas. The main idea being “the younger or more educated, or [their perception of] higher procedural injustice, or higher social disorder, or being more fearful of crime, all link to lower satisfaction with police and violent crime hotspots” (Haberman). To put it simply Haberman is trying to say that if the civilian is more fearful for his or her life and the police officer does not follow through on their duties, then the civilian will be more apt in saying that they are not trusting in the force. Police officers are supposed to be the rock that frightened people turn to for help, this in turn is a dignified response and officers all around should take heed and correct this mistake.
This paper proceeds with their investigational lower satisfaction in criminal hotspots by breaking down the effectiveness of policing in these high profile areas. In a city like Minneapolis officers have been known to simply generate random traffic stops, or stand idly by in their patrol cars while on beat. While in Indianapolis specific criminals are hunted and arrested within a particular day (Haberman). This gap in effectiveness that exists here should not be present and the author entails that should be corrected with greater disiplice from their captains. Next police trust and effectiveness is evaluated by the perception of criminal activity in a particular area, where a civilian is assessing the status of activity in their neighborhood. Reports state that “residents attribute perceived high crime levels to their police department’s failure to control crime effectively” (Haberman). This entails that perceived trust and effectiveness of the police judged in part by the residents directly correlates with how well they are doing their job. Finally the satisfaction with the police force relates with the innate fear in civilians presented with violent crime, according to the study fear of crime directly connects with public trust in the police force (Haberman), so the police should work harder on teaching less lethal and frightening measures in enforcing the law.
This paper proceeds with their investigational lower satisfaction in criminal hotspots by breaking down the effectiveness of policing in these high profile areas. In a city like Minneapolis officers have been known to simply generate random traffic stops, or stand idly by in their patrol cars while on beat. While in Indianapolis specific criminals are hunted and arrested within a particular day (Haberman). This gap in effectiveness that exists here should not be present and the author entails that should be corrected with greater disiplice from their captains. Next police trust and effectiveness is evaluated by the perception of criminal activity in a particular area, where a civilian is assessing the status of activity in their neighborhood. Reports state that “residents attribute perceived high crime levels to their police department’s failure to control crime effectively” (Haberman). This entails that perceived trust and effectiveness of the police judged in part by the residents directly correlates with how well they are doing their job. Finally the satisfaction with the police force relates with the innate fear in civilians presented with violent crime, according to the study fear of crime directly connects with public trust in the police force (Haberman), so the police should work harder on teaching less lethal and frightening measures in enforcing the law.