How are many agencies rethinking traditional police patrol in terms of administrative tasks and nonessential calls?
What will be an ideal response?
Policing is a multimillion-dollar business and random patrol activities are a waste of these taxpayer dollars. A major way of diminishing costs is to use a priority system to stack calls from a "crimes in progress" to an abandoned car in a driveway. Another approach is to have all non-emergency service calls and information calls relegated to 411 or some kind of non-emergency system while emergency calls are made to 911 . Traditionally, 25 percent of patrol activity is devoted to paperwork and administrative tasks. This has been reduced and will continue to be reduced by using information technology and computers.
A shit to directed patrol and preventive patrol with Comstat capabilities has made police departments more effective in their use of patrol time. The advanced use of crime mapping, global positioning, and crime analysis has slowly brought patrol activity into the 21st century. The idea is to make patrol proactive through crime analysis and with less use of reactive random patrol.
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