MODEL ACADEMIC CURRICULUM MODULE 8

1. MODEL ACADEMIC CURRICULUMMODULE 8 Problem-Solving Resources

2. Module 8 Topics • Problem-Specific Guides for Police • Response Guides • Problem-Solving Tools Guides • Goldstein Award Projects • Tilley Awards • Street Prostitution Module

3. About the POP Guide Series The guides are most useful to students/officers who: • understand basic problem-oriented policing principles and methods • can look at a problem in depth • are willing to consider new ways of doing police business. • understand the value and the limits of research knowledge. • are willing to work with other community agencies to find effective solutions to the problem.

4. Problem-Oriented Guides for Police (POP Guides) • Problem-Specific Guides • Response Guides • Problem-Solving Tool Guides

5. Problem-Specific Guides • Assaults in and Around Bars • Acquaintance Rape of College Students • Bomb Threats in Schools • Bullying in Schools • Burglary of Retail Establishments • Burglary of Single-Family Houses • Check and Card Fraud • Clandestine Drug Labs • Crimes Against Tourists • Cruising • Disorder at Budget Motels • Disorderly Youth in Public Places

6. Problem-Specific Guides • Drug Dealing in Open-Air Markets • Drug Dealing in Privately Owned Apartment Complexes • Drunk Driving • False Burglar Alarms • Financial Crimes Against the Elderly • Graffiti • Gun Violence Among Serious Young Offenders • Identity Theft • Illicit Sexual Activity in Public Places • Loud Car Stereos • Misuse and Abuse of 911 • Panhandling

7. Problem-Specific Guides • Prescription Fraud • Rave Parties • Robbery at Automated Teller Machines • Robbery of Taxi Drivers • School Vandalism and Break-Ins • Shoplifting • Speeding in Residential Areas • Stalking • Street Prostitution • Street Racing • Thefts of and from Cars in Parking Facilities • Underage Drinking

8. Response Guides • The Benefits and Consequences of Police Crackdowns • Closing Streets and Alleys to Reduce Crime • Shifting and Sharing Responsibility for Public Safety Problems • Video Surveillance of Public Places • Crime Prevention Publicity Campaigns

9. Problem-Solving Tool Guides • Assessing Responses to Problems • Using Offender Interviews to Inform Police Problem-Solving • Researching a Problem • Analyzing Repeat Victimization • Partnering with Businesses to Address Public Safety Problems

10. The Herman Goldstein Award for Excellence in Problem-Oriented Policing • The Goldstein Awards recognize innovative and effective problem-oriented policing (POP) projects that have achieved measurable success in resolving recurring specific crime, disorder or public safety problems faced by police and the community.

11. Herman Goldstein Award Examples Operation Cobra: Tackling Vehicle Crime in the City of Portsmouth, England, Using a Problem Solving Approach - Hampshire Constabulary, United Kingdom, 2004 Winner. Mole Hills from Mountains - Lancashire Constabulary, United Kingdom, 2004 Finalist. It Takes a Village...Reducing Traffic Congestion Around Barron Early Childhood School - Plano Police Department, TX,2004 Finalist.

12. The Tilley Awards (UK) • The Tilley Awards promotes best practice in tackling crime and anti-social behavior by recognizing initiatives that reduce crime over the long term, not just by making arrests, but by working with local agencies to tackle the root causes of the problems.

13. Online Exercise - Street Prostitution Interactive Module

14. Officer Exercise • Identify a persistent problem in your jurisdiction. • If there is already POP Guide that addresses that problem (or one is comparable to it) use it as a reference and develop an implementation plan for a comparable POP project in your community.