Understanding crime mapping (Geographical Information Systems GIS), and the significance of the Broken Window Thesis and Kansas City Patrol experiment.
Directions: Form one complete essay with the following concepts below. Indirectly answer the issues and questions within your paper. Be sure to cite your textbook.
See chapter 5 and 6. First explain Broken Windows Thesis and Kansas City Patrol Experiment.
Explain how both of these theories are relevant to crime mapping in terms how police revolutionized patrolling in today’s policing environment.
What does the Kansas city Experiment say about random police patrolling? Was this effective?
What happens to crime when a broken window is left unnoticed ? Abandoned cars? Vandalism, trash on the streets?
How does crime mapping help law enforcement use their time more efficiently?
See this link and compare and contrast the use of random patrolling in the early 1970’s to today’s technology in law enforcement.
