Tax-Deductible donations can be made to:. Box Wilson, NC You will receive the same level of service as you would if a patrol officer had responded to you. To contact someone who will take your report, please call A TRU officer is available daily from a.
It is the philosophy of the Wilson Police Department that preventing crime is preferable to dealing with crime after it has occurred. Crime Prevention concentrates on the dual concept of eliminating or minimizing criminal opportunities, whenever possible, and encouraging citizens to be responsible for their own security and the security of others.
If you are concerned about the security of your home or business, call and setup an appointment for a security survey with one of our officers. Our officers will come to your home or business and walk through the inside and observe the outside and give suggestions if needed on how to further secure your property against burglary and intrusion.
Contact CaptainSteve Stroud, Public Information Officer, at the Wilson Police Department at if you have questions or to set up a security survey for your home or business. Community Watch is a Crime Prevention program that involves citizens working with each other and with law enforcement agencies to reduce crime and victimization in their communities.
It involves:. Neighbors looking out for each other! Because law enforcement officers cannot be on every street corner, citizen involvement is necessary to combat crime. On average, there are approximately two law enforcement officers for every 1, citizens. You and your neighbors are the ones who really know what is going on in your community. By cooperating with each other and with the police, citizens can help fight crime in the most effective way — preventing the victimization of themselves, their families and friends.
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Jump to subpage Crime Stoppers What is Crime Stoppers? How does Crime Stoppers work? Who benefits from Crime Stoppers? How can you help? Close the windows and lock your doors every time you get out. Keep your driveway and yard lit up all night. Lock your shopping packages in the trunk. Use heavy duty locks for truck tool boxes and secure the tool box to the bed of the truck. Be observant. Notify the police if you see anyone acting in a suspicious manner such as loitering around cars or looking into cars.
Some of these strategies, like drug courts and public surveillance cameras, are in widespread usage and have already helped reduce crime. Others have not yet been widely implemented. However, empirical evidence shows that they all effectively lower crime and reduce the costs associated with it.
May 7, Shebani Rao. Nancy G. La Vigne. Photo via Shutterstock. Related Content. Read more. One of the hot new phrases in criminal justice today is "community policing. Experts and law enforcement officials will give all sorts of definitions and strategies for the practice.
But Kennedy did explain a strategy — "focused deterrence policing" — that sounds a lot like what I would expect real community policing to look like, and it works. Focused deterrence hones in on specific problems in a community, such as drug dealing, generally violent behavior, gangs, or gun violence.
It then focuses on the individuals and groups who drive most of that activity, particularly those with criminal records and those involved in gang activity. The strategy brings together law enforcement and community groups to clearly signal the major legal and community consequences of violence, especially in relation to an individual's previous criminal record.
And to provide alternatives to violent or criminal lifestyles, the community should also offer social services and other forms of help. So if someone has a long history of drug or even violent crimes, police could let him know about the legal consequences of violence — decades or life in prison — and the community could voice, through personal interactions, how it would directly damage his family, friends, church, school, and so on.
And the groups should also offer help through, for example, accessible job and education programs. The idea is that a would-be shooter, now knowing the full consequences of his actions, will be deterred from acting out in the future. And he'll have alternative options if he wants to pursue a different kind of life. The research shows this works.
Focused deterrence is one of the changes in policing strategy credited with what's known as the "Boston miracle," in which the city saw violent crime drop by 79 percent in the s. And other research has found that it can work in many other places. This policing strategy can involve retraining cops, getting them more involved in the community, hiring more officers to carry it out effectively, and boosting spending on social services.
That can be very expensive — as such services and police departments already make up a sizable chunk of many municipal and state budgets. But if local lawmakers and officials want to reduce crime, these changes can go a long way. The research is quite clear that kids who don't drop out and complete school are less likely to commit crime. But this can get into tricky questions over correlation versus causation: Does keeping kids in school longer stop them from committing crime later on by keeping them off the streets and giving them the education they need to find a legal job?
Or are the kids who decide to stay in school longer simply better behaved, and therefore less likely to commit crimes? A recent study published in the American Economic Journal took an ingenious approach to cut through this question — by tapping into data for students in North Carolina, their birthdays, when they enroll in kindergarten, their dropout rates, and their crime rates.
It found that keeping kids in school longer likely reduces crime. The study looked at data based on when children begin their education and whether the older children in a class — those who were enrolled into kindergarten at an older age — were more likely to drop out and commit crime.
The idea: These kids are generally enrolled at a later age due to a technicality in North Carolina rules about birthdays and cutoff dates, so there's no inherent reason to think their behavior should be different — unless their time in school influences it. The study found that these older kids were more likely to drop out — and they were more likely to commit a felony offense by age Phil Cook, one of the study's authors, told me his findings strongly suggest keeping kids in school will reduce their crime rates.
So what could policymakers do with these findings? Well, many states, including North Carolina, set the dropout age at They could raise the dropout age to 18 or older. Another option: Lawmakers could adopt Denmark's model, which requires students to complete a certain number of grades. Presumably there would be exceptions, such as for children with extreme disabilities.
This would be less arbitrary than an age cutoff, but it could run into some politically tricky territory if it forces adults 18 and older to stay in high school. Whatever method policymakers use, keeping kids in school longer appears to reduce crime rates. And it doesn't involve guns at all. The University of Chicago Crime Lab has done a lot of great work into many different policy proposals to fight crime.
One of those ideas, Youth Guidance 's Becoming A Man , is emblematic of how specific these policies can get — it targets youth who are at risk of getting into violent encounters, perhaps because of the neighborhood they live in or what school they go to.
The program then uses once-a-week interventions, based on cognitive behavioral principles, to teach youth how to react in encounters that can turn violent. It works: Randomized control trials by the Crime Lab found it reduced violent crime arrests by 30 to 50 percent during the time of the intervention.
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