Examples Of Disproportionality

Press Release

Possible Data Disproportionality

By: Police Chief of New York Jurisdiction

Date:

The police chief of New York jurisdiction announced today that the recently passed law requiring the police to record the race and ethnicity of the vehicle occupants and pedestrians stopped for any reason will result in a disproportionate data. Stun measures will be employed to distinguish between inappropriate discrimination and disproportionation in the data.

Disproportionality is inevitable given the fact that the data will constitute a majority of the race or ethnicity that lives in that area. For example, if the residents of the city the police are collecting data are a minority, the data of the pedestrians and the occupant of the vehicle

The offense is committed at a particular place and at a particular time (Vito, Reed, & Walsh, 2017). For example, bank robbery is determined by specific criminals, in the bank at a particular time. The police officers can use intervention strategies to prevent the bank robbery. They can do a crime analysis, especially when given prior information about a planned robbery. Most bank robbers use the same strategy to access entrance to the bank and force their way to the cashiers as well as to the security room. Equally, most offender use strategies used by other criminals (Vito, Reed, & Walsh, 2017). The police officers can therefore easily do an analysis. They can also target the offender by their movement, dressing and uncertainty behavior when around the place of the targeted crime. The law enforcers have to learn the geographically targeted area to know the possible area of entrance and exit of the

The decision making goes to the levels of middle managers that operate outside the district. The managers are held accountable for operations. The role of community policing specialist requires decentralized authority so that they can reach assistance within the shortest time possible (Hoover, 2014). Compstat approach increases the law enforcer’s capacity to understand, identify and also monitor responses regarding crime problems (Vito, Reed, & Walsh, 2017). Variety of justifications characterizes community policing. For example, it strengthens the police’s public support, reducing crime and building social capital as well as giving the patrol officers more significant decision making authority. Hoover (2014) in his book “Police crime control strategies” asserts that Community policing specialist ensures that the community stays safe all the time by working closely with the community and being within reach whenever required. Most of the time the community policing specialist will need some assistance from his seniors, Compstat approach decentralizes authority such that the community policing specialist gets assistance easily and quickly to enable him or she provides better services to the community (Braga,