All Terrorism Is Local PDF

This session provides an overview of the new POP manual, "Policing Terrorism: An Executive's Guide". While the popular media gives the impression that terrorism is the province of the federal Government - the Department of Homeland Security and such organizations as the FBI and CIA, this manual shows how the first line of defense against terrorism is local police. Topics to be covered include: penetrating the myths of terrorism; understanding and responding to terrorism as crime; identifying the four pillars of terrorist opportunity - Targets, Weapons, Tools and Facilitating Conditions - and what you can do about them, working with local communities to reduce terrorist opportunity, your role in collecting intelligence and how to mitigate the fallout should an attack occur.

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Community Development as a POP Response: When Is It the Best Option?PDF

Cops sometimes teasingly say when confronted with a chronic problem property or area that "someone should bulldoze the place." This workshop will help police better understand when community development is an appropriate option, and if it is, then how police can most effectively weigh in analytically to ensure that community development actually reduces crime.

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Cops In Schools: A Passing Grade?PDF

So, your city would like a cop in the high school. Better yet, one is already assigned. How well does that work to reduce crime? What kinds of things work to reduce crime in schools. Why it isn't as intuitive as you would think.

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Drug Courts, Domestic Violence Courts and Mental Health Courts: Judging Their EffectivenessPDF

ApIn recent years, an array of specialized "problem-solving courts" has emerged throughout the country as a way of finding more effective criminal justice approaches to the underlying problems that bring offenders into 'the system.' Since 1989, when the nation's first drug court opened in Miami, Florida, a number of different specialized courts have developed, ones for drug addicts, others for domestic violence batterers, or those who have mental illness, or drunk drivers, or veterans, etc. This session will focus on drug courts, domestic violence courts, and mental health courts and review what is known about their effectiveness in reducing offending, and the synergies to and differences with problem-oriented policing.

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Got Hotspots? Comparing POP Interventions to Traditional Saturation PolicingPDF

This session will discuss Jacksonville's efforts, in partnership with the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), to introduce a research based, large scale combination of problem-oriented policing and saturation patrol. The experimental project is being used as a way to assess problem-oriented policing in relation or contrast to the effects of saturation patrols, and to determine a best strategies for more fully integrating large scale problem-solving into the large agency's business processes. The Problem-Oriented portion of this operation made up of over 70 full-time committed personnel including 63 officers, 6 Sergeants, 2 lieutenants, 3 analysts under the direction of an Analyst Management, a Chief, and a Director. Early results are impressive, and have already prompted a commitment to agency wide roll out planning.

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Graffiti: Tag, You're OutPDF

Graffiti, and other types of vandalism, accounted for almost 30% of all crime in portions of Barnsley in South Yorkshire. The community also identified graffiti as a priority. The team looked at multiple sources of data to identify the extent of the problem and to determine patterns, and asked Sheffield University to examine the research to better understand the causes and characteristics of graffiti offending. None of the graffiti were gang tags, and most tags were scrawled on walls, shops, bus stop shelters, utility boxes and telephone booths, and likely involved less than 15 seconds to make each tag. Offender detection rates were extremely low. Innovative responses included the application of situational crime prevention to increase the risk to offenders and included a poster campaign, letters to suspects, as well as other countermeasures. Results included reductions in graffiti and increased detection rates. Follow up interviews with offenders identified the countermeasures that seemed to have the most impact.

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Implementing POP: Learning the Hard WayPDF

To the observer the reluctance by many Police Forces to engage with Problem Oriented Policing is difficult to understand. However although the approach may be simple in theory it has become notoriously difficult to implement. Ian McPherson and Stuart Kirby have a wide experience of implementing problem solving in the UK which started with the introduction of POP in the Lancashire Constabulary in 1998, which has since been seen as one of the most successful Police agencies to implement this approach. More recently they have again joined up to implement the approach in the Norfolk Constabulary. In the workshop Ian and Stuart provide an overview of the myths, and blockages they found when implementing POP and provide an overview of how officers respond to the challenges presented to them. Further the workshop explains how the two look at implementation as a problem in itself, which should be meticulously analysed, carefully implemented and rigorously evaluated. The workshop will provide insight to all managers and practitioners who are asked to implement problem solving approaches.

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Managing Crime and Calls for Service in Apartment ComplexesPDF

Apartment living is unique and diverse, both for the residents and those responding to incidents there. The majority of cities have apartment complexes within their jurisdictions, for the City of Citrus Heights, fifty-two apartment complexes within fourteen square miles created a need to address the varied problems associated with apartment living. The Citrus Heights Police Department began applying the problem-solving method to identify problems/nuisance issues affecting local apartment complexes. A shared effort, which combines the Citrus Heights Police Department, property managers and owners, investment firms, and social service groups, was necessary to generate innovative ideas to address the varied problems. The Citrus Heights and Multi-housing Partnership (C.H.A.M.P.) was created with the idea to use education and collaboration in creating safer and thriving apartment living experiences. This workshop will focus on using traditional and non-traditional policing methods, the use of analysis for apartment complex crime/safety issues, partnership building, and taking the necessary steps needed to address those issues.

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Problem Families: Dealing With the SimpsonsPDF

Cops sometimes teasingly say when confronted with a chronic problem property or area that "someone should bulldoze the place." This workshop will help police better understand when community development is an appropriate option, and if it is, then how police can most effectively weigh in analytically to ensure that community development actually reduces crime.

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Shifting Responsibility for Prevention to Wal-Mart and OthersPDF

On November 28, 2008 a Walmart employee working the Black Friday sale was killed when the doors the Walmart store opened. Patrons rushed into the store, knocking the employee to the ground causing his death. How could this happen?, and what can we do to prevent this from happening again. The Nassau County Police Department, District attorneys office, government agencies and retailers worked together to discuss the challenges, problems and solutions.

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Super Controllers of Crime: Can I Be Your Superman?PDF

What's next after the apartment complex owner says he's done all he can to eliminate drug dealing in his apartment complex but he really hasn't. What if the motel management says that it can't raise the room price or request I.D. because corporate won't let it? What do you do if the store won't voluntarily stop selling the 40-ouncers that the chronic inebriates buy? What if some violent offenders are not being held accountable? What if the university won't do enough to reduce rape victimizations? Sounds like you need some super controllers. Learn about who and what they are and how to bring them to life.

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Using Situational Crime Prevention in Anti-Terrorism Efforts: Manipulating Risk, Effort, Reward, Excuse and ProvocationPDF

"Situational Crime Prevention" involves the introduction of managerial and environmental change to reduce the opportunity for crimes to occur. The target is not the criminal but instead the settings in which crimes occur. It is about making criminal action less attractive to offenders. This workshop will focus on the utilization of "Situational Crime Prevention" as part of an agency's terrorism prevention, detection and response plans/strategies.

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