Reactive and proactive policing are both necessary. Still, we need to lower expectations that such efforts can ever be responsive to crime.
Strategies that do show evidence of effectiveness include policing that's focused on high-risk individuals or geographic areas, and/or deterrence-based approaches that hold entire gangs accountable should individual members engage in criminal behavior.
I've met with a group of very distinguished, experienced police chiefs a few weeks ago. They admit it's an issue. They've got a lot of concerns.
Since 1992 we have made dramatic progress in reducing violent crime.
Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.
We have to know what we're doing. Right now, our police, in many cases, are afraid to do anything.
Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad.
Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police.
I thank the officers of the Minneapolis Police Department, who work hard every day to help people in their most vulnerable moments, keep our communities safe, and build relationships and trust with the public.
Obama believes the cops are the problem. That's why his new philosophy is to have them withdraw and refrain and not be seen because just their presence is provocative.
