Evidence-based policing is the use of research to improve the policing work. The major tenants of Evidence-based policing are car owners, taxi drivers, passengers, house owners. This is because they are people who are mostly affected when law enforcement officers are laid off in place of evidence-based policing (Bachman & Schutt, 2008).
Tenants relate to evidence-based policing as the core of research. The objective of the research is to realize how the law enforcement officers can improve the lives of the tenants within the shortest time possible, and with the use of the least expenses. In other words, the research will see that the needs of the tenants are addressed without necessarily having an officer attending to them (Bueermann, 2012).
Evidence-based policing has already been used in areas mostly to do with public safety, managing the needs of community, and managing funds of the taxpayers. In these areas, evidence-based policing implements utilizes research and the science behind criminal cases, examine how it happens, people affected and the best ways to prevent it, so as to protect the people affected. It also helps in solving problems related to the criminal offences, to ensure that what drives people to committing crime is thoroughly addressed without necessarily increasing the budget (Bueermann, 2012).
Police chiefs have implemented evidence-based research in the following areas;
Use of surveillance cameras
In cases that deals with criminals rather than endorsing their arrest
In patrols to realize those drivers not following traffic regulation
In higher learning institutions such as colleges and universities
Using technology to trace the offenders
The following are the steps I would convince a department to use evidence-based policing;
Police to work in collaboration with researchers to point out areas vulnerable to crimes
Implement ways to monitor and control those crimes
Focus on what the research can do better than security personnel
Gradually withdraw the security officers whose work is done excellently by research-based policing
Endorse the research-based policing by encouraging more research on its improvement, so as to improve the security and protect the community and the public
References
Bachman, R., & Schutt, R. K. (2008). Fundamentals of research in criminology and criminal justice. Los Angeles: Sage Publications.
Bueermann, J. (2012). Being smart on crime with evidence-based policing.NIJ Journal, 269, 12-15..
