Mobilizing and engaging your community to reduce victimization and reinvest police resources

Hawkes, John

doi:10.35502/jcswb.11

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“…• Partnering in early intervention (Ontario, 2018, p. 2). Hawkes (2016), the commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Service, analyzed the implementation of the MEM into the professional lives of the OPP. More specifically, the author describes the recommended tactics in the MEM and discusses what utilizing them in the field looks like.…”

Section: Community Engagement In Policingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is extremely important as it ensures that the definitions used to code data are formed according to current use of the model in its intended field. Definitions provided by Hawkes (2016) have been included below in table 1.0.…”

Section: Community Engagement In Policingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The act of working "collaboratively" with community members to "positively affect the future of Ontario's youth" (Hawkes, 2016, p.23) Hawkes (2016) speaks to the progressive and empowering nature of the MEM with enthusiasm, but also notes that the OPP faced many challenges when adopting it-further highlighting the difficulties practicing CP mentioned in the following literature. Myhill (2003) defines community engagement in policing as "the process of enabling the participation of citizens and communities in policing" while placing the "responsibility to engage" on the police service (p. 4).…”

Section: Partnering In Early Interventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Each of these tactics requires some aspect of communication. As previously noted, a study conducted by Hawkes (2016) has helped operationalize the definitions within the MEM to align directly with current police practice using the MEM and to provide a realistic definition. However, due to the lack of supporting information provided in the MEM, there is little information distinguishing between similar tactics.…”

Section: Twittermentioning

confidence: 99%

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Impossible or Inevitable?: Suggestions for Future Youth - Police Communication Online

Zettel¹

2021

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A lack of provincial standardization for social media use by Ontario police officers has limited the progression and success of community policing among young populations. The abundant success of police-youth communications in-person is evident in studies from studies by Anderson et al. (2007), Hinds (2007), and Leroux & McShane (2017); these results suggests that increased social media communications between youth and officers would prove beneficial. However, the barrier between the community policing principles outlined in Ontario’s Mobilization and Engagement Model (MEM) and actual police practice echo structural issues that have plagued Ontario policing for decades. Recent literature from Hawkes (2016) and earlier literature from Leighton (1991) demonstrate the ongoing struggle to translate theory into practice. Combining a qualitative content analysis of Twitter data alongside semi-structured interviews with police officers, this study identified MEM strategies used by officers on social media, as well as additional strategies introduced by officers on an individual basis. Findings indicate that there are inconsistencies between officer perceptions of their communications with youth and that of their actual practice. The discovery of four additional strategies used to accomplish community policing on social media suggests that the MEM should be restructured to accommodate for technological advances. Officer social media use varied but a strong commonality included the fear of damaged reputation or job loss-- indicating a greater need for standardization to instill confidence in officer social media use. While provincial standardization would benefit officers, it should not be restrictive as humanistic elements such as information dissemination and personalization derived from officer freedom on social media were most often noted as beneficial to both officers and youth.

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Section: Community Engagement In Policingmentioning

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Section: Community Engagement In Policingmentioning

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Section: Partnering In Early Interventionmentioning

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Impossible or Inevitable?: Suggestions for Future Youth - Police Communication Online

Zettel¹

2021

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“…The OPP has adopted Ontario's Mobilization & Engagement Model for Community Policing, which emphasizes that all community members and service agencies must work together to keep communities safe, secure, and healthy. Police service providers increase safety by reducing crime, victimization, and social disorder in partnership with communities (Hawkes, 2016). For Project Sunset, community partners include Treaty Three Police Service, Dryden Police Service, school boards, education authorities, health and medical services, First Nations communities, substance abuse prevention services, child and family service agencies, as well as the industrial and private sectors.…”

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confidence: 99%

Projects “Journey” and “Sunset” build connections for positive community impact

Muise¹,

Mackey²

2017

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In 2011, the Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario released the Death Review of the Youth Suicides at Pikangikum First Nation, 2006-2008 following an alarmingly high number of youth suicides that occurred in that community. Persistent social, health, infrastructure, economic, capacity, and governance deficits that exist contribute to vulnerability and atrisk behaviours among youth including crime, substance abuse, and suicide. The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) sought ways and means to work to address these challenges in collaboration with communities. After securing funding support through Public Safety Canada, the OPP implemented an experiential youth development program called Project Journey, modelled after Project Venture, a program from the United States specifically designed for at-risk Indigenous youth. So promising are the results from Project Journey that a sister program, Project Sunset, came into being to help expand the proactive work with community partners. These OPP-led programs help address the root causes of youth crime, social disorder, and crisis. At the same time, they support relationship-building and community engagement, and empower individuals and community partners to take positive action for sustainable change.

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Community safety and repurposing the police before, during, and after a pandemic: Methodological notes

Levi

Foglesong

Torigian

2020

JCSWB

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The text below is a lightly edited version of our response to a call for research proposals on COVID-19. We wrote it in early April 2020. We reproduce it here as a source of insight for how to think about stressors, strains, and possible changes to the role of the police. The proposal raises the issue of when police leaders explicitly must reckon with the future of policing in the aftermath of crises.

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Mobilizing and engaging your community to reduce victimization and reinvest police resources

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Impossible or Inevitable?: Suggestions for Future Youth - Police Communication Online

Impossible or Inevitable?: Suggestions for Future Youth - Police Communication Online

Projects “Journey” and “Sunset” build connections for positive community impact

Community safety and repurposing the police before, during, and after a pandemic: Methodological notes

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