Need for More Police on the Streets

The theories of Kelling and Bratton are what is needed here (Kelling and Bratton, 1998). More police on the streets, more enforcement of policing for misdemeanors would have an impact. Bratton proved this in New York, and it is now at work in Boston. If people realize that the police are watching them, and that if they step out of line, they will pay the price, then they are less likely to do so. If they think they can run wild and commit crimes at will, with no one around to stop them, they will be encouraged to do so, but if they see a large police presence in the area, they will think twice before breaking the law because they know their chances of getting caught are higher.

In areas which are run down, and seedy, people get the idea that no one cares and that it doesn't matter what they do. Most crime takes plac

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the perception of a disordered neighborhood, but the racial makeup did. It was the number of Blacks, and to a lesser degree Hispanics, in the neighborhood which led to that perception, and this perception came not only from Whites, but equally from Blacks and Hispanics. There is nothing the police can do to change this racial conception. Greene (1999) notes that while Bratton was at work with his zero tolerance Compstat program in New York to combat crime by enforcing police action against even petty crimes in the hope that stopping the small crimes would put a halt to the bigger ones, which it did, there was also a major overhaul of the New York Police Department taking place. The police department was transformed from the bottom up, and the department transfused with a new mindset about what the police could and should be doing to tackle the crime problem and reduce its impact on the residents of New York City. He went against traditional thinking that the New York Police department was too large, too bureaucratic, too rigid to adapt to the radical changes he was suggesting. Bratton's policies and practices required radical changes with which he hoped to reduce crime in the city. At the time, New York City ranked 89 on
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