Your police department closely follows the community policing paradigm, meaning that it has realized the importance of working with the community as a whole to resolve long-term problems that have often have stymied efforts led only bt the police in the past. Rectly, one of these community groups came to you, as police chief, and asked that you respond to what it feels is an increaseingly dangerous gang problem in the community. There have been several serious incidents of violence and drive-by shootings, along with the increase in drug traffic and attemps to gain new members in your local high schools.
You recognize that increasing patrols and arrests in the area will only solve the problem short term or perhaps just displace the problem, so you want to seek a more log-term solution.
FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT, your police department has picked you up to write an action plan that addresses this problem in the community.
Your action plan should include, but is not limited to the following,
1. Several intiatives that will assit in rectifying the problem, including the following:
a. Educational initiatives
b. Local initiatives
2. How can the negative effects if violence on children be lessened?
3. Do you believe that there should be a limitation on the the violent video games children are permitted to play?
4. What type of assistance will you ask from the community as a whole?
5. What role will the department itself take?
6. How will you measure the effectiveness of your plan?