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Memo: The need to increase our members of the city police force
Recently, there has been a heated debate in the city council regarding crime rates. Representative Brown has alleged that crime rates are skyrocketing and says that increased members of the police are necessary to engage in effective policing. Although members of our force have taken umbrage at these allegations that we are not performing our duties in an effective manner, I would contend that this is a critical juncture for law enforcement in our town. Although the actual crime rates have not been going up, there is still a vital need to increase members of our force. Our city is changing, and the police force must change with it likewise.
Our city is classified as a mid-sized metropolis of approximately 75,000 residents. However, for the past several years we have been steadily expanding at a rate of 3 and 5% per year. Currently we only have thirty uniformed officers and 12 support staff. One of the reasons that there may be a perception that crime is on the rise is that this is simply not enough to have a visible police presence on the streets. A lack of a viable police presence could easily create trouble in the future. "Broken window theory suggests promoting walking-the-beat form of policing on the basis that indicators of neighbourhood disrepair such as a broken window foster criminality. The logic is that signs of neighbourhood decay lead residents to withdraw from public life of the neighbourhood and thereby reduce the efficacy of informal social control, leaving the area open for serious criminal misdemeanours" (Broken windows theory, 2012, Sociology Index).
Given the expanding nature of our city, it is only a matter of time before people begin to 'test the limits' of our sparse...
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