ADJUS-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Broken Windows Theory

• School: Diablo Valley College
• Department: Administration Of Justice
• Course: ADJUS-120
• Professor: Gaines

Document Summary

Patrol is the backbone of police operations. Patrol comes from the french word for tramping about in the mud. Every local department has a patrol unit. Well suited to answering calls for help. Often first to arrive at the scene. Work of special agents is similar to detectives. More likely to be proactive than local detectives. Job of detectives is mainly to talk to people to figure out what happened. The process of catching a criminal has three stages. Increasing use of scientific methods of discovery. Patrol and investigation are the two largest and most important units in a police department. In metropolitan areas, special units are set up to deal with specific types of problems. Concern over school incidents unfairly putting youths into the. Permits officer to use broad discretion with who to stop and whether to issue a citation. Enforcement of vice laws depends on proactive police work.