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Originally Posted by ISiddiqui
Doesn't that run counter to broken windows policing? Theory being people are less willing to perform crimes when the police are right there?
As for the radio, can't you have a specific uniformed officers who aren't on everything else duty?
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Broken windows is more about controlling public disorder by targeting what people consider low level offenses. And of course people are less willing to commit crimes in the presence of a uniformed officer, but someone (most people?) will just wait until that uniform is gone and continue whatever they were doing/going to do.
As far as keeping something like a uniformed gun/drug unit, of course you can. But people won’t know that they aren’t on everything else duty and will still approach them with domestics, mental, etc., And telling people, “Sorry, I know I’m a cop but that’s not my job,” doesn’t go over very well.