Summarize evaluation reports of a community-oriented policing program or effort.?

Working with the assumption that you have been hired as consultants to implement and evaluate a community policing effort for a fictitious mid-sized municipal police agency. Here is the article: 6 Bringing Victims into Community Policing





prevention" is something that police organizations tend to


do at a community or group level. Victim service


organizations are often hesitant to focus on crime


prevention because they are usually focused exclusively on


the aftermath of crime. However, victim service


organizations, especially those working on domestic


violence and stalking, often assist individual victims with


"safety planning" to develop strategies to maximize the


victim's safety. Collaborative efforts using both these


approaches could prove to be very effective.





In summary, our overall project has reinforced for us the


importance of closer collaboration between crime victims,


crime victim organizations, and the police. It is time to bring


the victim into community policing.





Our work shows that community policing can be greatly


enhanced by working to prevent repeat victimization and


building collaborative problem solving relationships with


victims and victim organizations. The information and tools


included in this package are a distillation of all that we have


learned over the last 18 months about the relationship


between police and crime victims. We hope that these


materials will help police organizations enhance the practice


of community policing by building stronger problem solving


relationships with crime victims and the organizations that


serve them.The Promise of Preventing Repeat Victimization





A fundamental tenet of community policing holds that police


should work with community-based partners to solve


problems. The most difficult aspect of problem solving is the


identification and effective analysis of problems. Police


organizations use an array of macro-level tactics to identify


and analyze crime problems. Data are collected, crime maps


are analyzed, patrol officers are surveyed, and community


organizations are consulted. This approach depends on a high


level of resources and tends to only identify problems once


they have become big enough to draw police attention.





In contrast, identifying and preventing repeat victimization is


problem solving that starts at the micro level. Because repeat


victimization affects individual people and targets, effective


problem solving begins at an individual level and moves to


larger groups when appropriate.





To fully understand the nature of repeat victimization and


develop effective responses, law enforcement agencies must








capitalize on non-traditional as well as traditional sources of


information. It's essential, for example, to look beyond arrest


data and calls for service and consider residential, business


and environmental surveys, victim and offender interviews,


mapping/GIS data, and social services data. The next task is


to analyze this data.





Thorough data analysis can yield surprising information about


underlying causes, illuminating problems and pointing the way


to solutions. Only through sound analysis can the detailed


picture needed to fashion effective responses emerge. Without


it, opportunities to develop alternative, non-traditional


responses are likely to be missed and strategies to prevent


repeat victimization are likely to fail.





One final point. Effective first response is vital to address the


problem of repeat victimization. But, it can also reduce


reliance on resource-intensive problem identification methods,


enabling the early resolution of crime problems.





Implications of a Policy to Prevent Repeat


Victimization





This policy creates an approach to preventing repeat


victimization that focuses on victim safety and strengthens the


foundation of community policing: partnering and problem


solving. Creating an organizational focus on preventing repeat


victimization of individuals will affect many principles


governing police operations.

Summarize evaluation reports of a community-oriented policing program or effort.?
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