Case Overview
The local community is concerned about the recent attacks on the Asian community and wants to know how the police plan to curtail future attacks.
Well-organized crime prevention is helpful in reducing the rate of victimization and enhances community safety.
All people’s lives are improved by effective, ethical crime prevention. Long-term gains include a decrease in the price of the formal criminal justice system as well as other societal expenses brought on by crime.
At all costs, this must be stopped because it is inhumane. To lessen the volatility, more deliberate action must be taken. To combat this irksome and barbarous habit of cattle theft, a four-pronged strategy might be used: organized discourse, ongoing education, governmental backing and goodwill, and alternative development.
Theory
The link that holds a social organization together is deteriorating, leading to social disorder. According to the hypothesis of social disorganization, a person’s physical and social environment heavily influences the behavioral decisions they make. Increased nonconformist conduct among its members, particularly among children and teens, is a sign of social disorganization, leaving external, state-supported enforcement as the main method for controlling crime (Koerner and Staller 30).
According to the social disorganization hypothesis, place matters in predicting criminal conduct. Physical decay, poverty, and more racial and cultural mixing are all present in areas with the highest crime rates.
How Police Will Prevent Future Attacks
The police should encourage citizens of the Asian community to report incidences and crime, which allows the law enforcement to fully understand the scope of the problem in the community and put resources to fight the attacks (Koerner and Staller 30). They should give the individuals an emergency hotline where they can call and report their crimes for the police to respond swiftly. This is important to create and maintain trust between law enforcement and the communities. The police should track and acknowledge the attacks so as to know the pattern and deal with them fast before they cause the community significant harm. They should establish agents or a task force tracking these types of attacks, which may lead to faster containment of the attackers.
Local, state, and federal law enforcement should be trained in handling these kinds of attacks in the future. They should also establish the source of these attacks. For example, they could be a result of hate towards Asian, racism, or tribalism. They should establish and expand language accessibility to the information about the attacks. The community and the law enforcers should be trained on how to identify and report these types of attacks.
There should be constant communication between law enforcement and the community (Chen et al. 6205). It is a good response for a community that is feeling vulnerable as a result of being a target of the attacks. This helps the residents of the Asian communities to combat fear, pain, and anxiety caused by the loss of victims’ families from the attacks.
Laws should be passed dictating the actions which should be taken against the people who perform their attacks. The attackers, therefore, will be well informed on the consequences of their actions which will result to decrease in such attacks.
Patrol officers in the Asian community residence should be increased in number (Yeh et al. 95). This will improve the security of the area, and they will be able to detect attacks faster. The Asian community citizens will feel safe when they see law enforcers around them.
The police should work hand in hand with the community leaders so that they can improve their methods on how to curtail attacks against Asian communities in culturally appropriate ways. This includes identifying the language barriers making connections with the community leaders and assisting with navigating the cultural sensitivities, which will help them to come to a decision on how to curb these attacks.
What the Asian Community Should Do in Preventing Attacks
It is important for the Asian community to work in closeness with the police to ensure that crimes and attacks shall not be tolerated, especially regarding the recent attacks that happened. If the police emphasize that there is no place for crime and attacks, it will scare away the attackers and warn them against carrying out future attacks. The targets and the victims should be placed under protection and escorts so as to get rid of the fear and anxiety of being a target of the crimes (Chen et al. 6209). The police should launch effective and intense investigation methods, alongside heavy punishment towards the people caught attacking the Asian communities. Suspects should be questioned and cross-examined according to police protocols. The policymakers within the Asian community should carry out an investigation on the leader and participants of the attacks and bring them to justice. This will help get rid of the attackers, scare them away, and discourage them from carrying out such activities. When they realize that the police are succeeding in catching them, they will stop the attacks.
The link that holds a social organization together is deteriorating, leading to social disorder. According to the hypothesis of social disorganization, a person’s physical and social environment heavily influences the behavioral decisions they make. Increased nonconformist conduct among its members, particularly among children and teens, is a sign of social disorganization, leaving external, state-supported enforcement as the main method for controlling crime (Liu and Lai 5160). According to the social disorganization hypothesis, place matters in predicting criminal conduct. Physical decay, poverty, and more racial and cultural mixing are all present in areas with the highest crime rates. The destructive impacts of social disorder have significantly damaged such institutions in many places. In a community, the police may strengthen their position as a force for norms by collaborating with these institutions and groups.
What the Asian Community Should Not Do
It is difficult to add problem-solving and community policing to the concepts of rapid response and retrospective investigation without increasing resources and fundamentally altering the administrative style of a police organization, despite the fact that logic and evidence support their potential for reducing crime. Without solid proof that it would be effective, it is difficult for a chief to make that decision.
The Special Intervention Service is a joint effort of special military and police organizations (DSI). People who are suspected of committing terrorist offenses are detained by this service. In the worst-case scenarios, it removes them.
Works Cited
Chen, Cheng, et al. “Simultaneously Learning Stochastic and Adversarial Bandits under the Position-Based Model.” Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 36, no. 6, 2022, pp. 6202-6210.
Koerner, Swen, and Mario S. Staller. “From Data to Knowledge: Training of Police and Military Special Operations Forces in Systemic Perspective.” Special Operations Journal, vol. 7, no. 1, 2021, pp. 29-42.
Liu, Guanlin, and Lifeng Lai. “Action-Manipulation Attacks Against Stochastic Bandits: Attacks and Defense.” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 68, 2020, pp. 5152-5165.
Yeh, Jarmin C., et al. “Entwined Oppressions: Historicizing Anti-Asian Violence in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Era.” Public Policy & Aging Report, vol. 32, no. 3, 2022, pp. 94-99.