Many cities are employing community based policing as a method to reduce crime at the community level. The question is asked does increased police protection significantly reduce crime? There is a common belief that increased police manpower and increased police expenditures can significantly reduce crime in the cities. There is very little evidence to support that community based policing make a difference. So many other factors may affect crime rates in cities. The size, density, youth unemployment, race, and poverty are few of several factors that make police activities insignificant. The amount of police activity in a given community can increase crime reporting, which tends to give an unclear picture of actual crime rate. The reduction of crime in America is a definite goal.
There are many conflicting views of crime in America. It is sometimes argued that this nationts high crime rate is a product of its social heterogeneity, which is the multiethnic, multiracial character of the American population. Blacks in the united states are often victims of crime far more frequently than whites. A huge part of the black population is in the young crime prone age (fifteen to twenty-four years), and these youths are more likely than not, to live outside husband-wife families. Researchers indicate that the streets of the nationts black inner cities produce a subculture which increases crime.
