The Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment became designed to test, empirically, the validity of one of the more important strategies of modern policing: routine, random patrol, visibility, motorized. The most important, although sometimes implicit, the objectives of this plan are to deter crime, arrest offenders, and reduce the fear of offense.
Nevertheless, entrenched as this strategy might have been, by the early 1970s no credible evidence or precise measurement had become presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of such an approach. Therefore, to disclose this evidence gap, a task force, including researchers from the supervisors the police foundation, and patrol officers of the South Patrol Division in Kansas City Police Department’s,
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The third problem became weary and restless through the lack of interest among the officers assigned to “reactive” beats. Counter react the boredom, the guidelines became modified to allow an increased level of activity by “responsive” designated officers in “proactive” beats. The revised guidelines stressed adherence to the spirit of the project, rather than to unalterable rules.
On October 1, 1972, the experiment resumed. The research continued successfully for twelve months, finishing on September 30, 1973. Findings became produced regarding the outcome of experimental circumstances on a wide variety of outcome measures, as described later. Moreover, the task force decided to exam the likely effects of routine preventive patrol by gathering a broad range of information from as many diverse sources as possible.
Ordinarily, a selection of sources used to include surveys of community residents, departmental data, surveys of commercial managers, surveys of persons encountered by police, a response time survey, participant observer surveys, surveys of police officers, personnel activity analyses, and several others. A summary of the various data sources has become provided