What If . . . ? You have just been hired as the new chief of police for a medium-sized community of approximately 80 to 100 thousand citizens. Your first assignment is to figure out how you are going to significantly diminish, or even eliminate, the high drug and prostitution activity in one particular area of the city.
• What proactive policing strategies, through the use of SARA, might you want to research and possibly adopt to help you meet this goal?
• Would you suggest the implementation of more than one strategy and if so which ones would you suggest would have the most impact?
• What resources would you want to make sure your police department has to successfully implement the programs?
• How might you restructure your department so that more proactive policing could be put in place?
• What cost do you see associated with the implementation of new proactive policing initiatives?
• What would be your projections, to the community, for return on investment in terms of crime control and cost?