Proactive Policing: Tackling Low-Level Crimes Through Community Engagement

Student’s Name: Instructor’s Name: Course: Date: Question Five: Low-Level Crimes As a police chief, I would focus on proactive response to low-level crimes that have created concern among the members of the community. Reactive policing is expensive and is not effective in actually preventing crime or lowering the effects of crime on victims. While most crimes require reactive responses that are made after victims file reports, the method is expensive. In particular, it would be costly to use reactive methods to deal with low-level crimes when they occur frequently and the members of the community request for police involvement. An effective method, however, would be the proactive strategies that involve the members of the commu