Community and Problem- Oriented Policing American policing has been evolving for a hundred years. Our justice system can be broken into three separate and distinct stages. The first is Early Uniformed Police, the second is Bureaucratic and the third Community and Problem-Oriented Policing. The civil unrest between police officers and minority ethnic groups during the seventies and eighties demanded a change in the American justice system. Reform picked up momentum when the article “Broken Windows”
Crime prevention is a topic area that has received nearly as much research devotion as crime causation. What can be done to prevent a particular criminal act from occurring? What methods can be undertaken to harden a person, location, or item from becoming a victim of crime? What are the socio-economic drivers of criminal behavior? These questions and a myriad of similar thoughts, questions, and ideas fill the minds of the public and policy makers alike. A more simplistic approach is often needed