Keeping the Peace Through Intensive Community Policing
As crime soars and the breakdown of public order takes its toll on our country, analysis from the John Locke Foundation signals it’s time to adopt a different approach to crime control, one that shifts the focus further upstream, looking at prevention models, rather than exclusively on punitive measures. In this July 2021 report, John Locke Foundation researcher and author Jon Guze explains that the current focus of catching, convicting, and punishing perpetrators after crimes have been committed has come with enormous economic and social costs. However, intensive community policing has proven successful at deterring crime and maintaining order, which leads to safer communities and fewer people living in poverty. Guze recommends a four-pronged plan to move forward with community policing: (1) hire more police officers (2) increase the pay for police officers (3) arm police officers with state-of-the-art training, direction, and support (4) deploy police officers as “peacekeepers” in communities that suffer most from crime and disorder.
As crime soars and the breakdown of public order takes its toll on our country, analysis from the John Locke Foundation signals it’s time to adopt a different approach to crime control, one that shifts the focus further upstream, looking at prevention models, rather than exclusively on punitive measures. In this July 2021 report, John Locke Foundation researcher and author Jon Guze explains that the current focus of catching, convicting, and punishing perpetrators after crimes have been committed has come with enormous economic and social costs.
However, intensive community policing has proven successful at deterring crime and maintaining order, which leads to safer communities and fewer people living in poverty. Guze recommends a four-pronged plan to move forward with community policing:
(1) hire more police officers
(2) increase the pay for police officers
(3) arm police officers with state-of-the-art training, direction, and support
(4) deploy police officers as “peacekeepers” in communities that suffer most from crime and disorder.
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About <strong>the</strong> Author<br />
Jon Guze is Senior Fellow<br />
for Legal Studies at <strong>the</strong><br />
John Locke Foundation.<br />
Before joining <strong>the</strong> John<br />
Locke Foundation, Jon<br />
practiced law in Durham,<br />
North Carolina for over 20<br />
years. He received a J.D.,<br />
with honors, from Duke<br />
Law School in 1994 and an A.B. in history from<br />
Harvard College in 1972. In between, he studied<br />
architecture and, as a Vice President at HOK, Inc.,<br />
he managed numerous large architectural and<br />
engineering projects across <strong>the</strong> U.S. and in <strong>the</strong> UK.<br />
Jon lives in Durham, North Carolina with his wife<br />
of more than 40 years. He has four children and<br />
six grandchildren.<br />
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT<br />
Jon Guze<br />
jguze@lockehq.org<br />
919-828-3876
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