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The police work effectively to reduce and prevent crime - Critically examine this statement in the light of the available evidence.
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The police work effectively to reduce and prevent crime. Critically examine this statement in the light of the available evidence. The police is the area of the Criminal Justice System which is under the most scrutiny, almost always because they are perceived as ineffective. My aim is to establish whether or not the police deserve this tarnished reputation by investigating their effectiveness of reducing and preventing crime. I shall be looking into many different aspects of the police, starting with a brief history of the police and how their roles and responsibilities have changed since the beginning of the 19th century. I shall then go on to look at some statistics from the 2001 British Crime Survey in order to attempt to determine the effectiveness of the police in terms of crime reduction. Other investigative matters include police accountability, which takes me neatly to the question of police conduct and complaints-...
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