Police Models
These models and simulations have been tagged “Police”.
These models and simulations have been tagged “Police”.
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Justice Reinvestment in Bourke
Bourke is town with a population of 5000 people, that has limited offered to keep its community occupied. This has led to a lot of residents to result to mischief and violence, however, the town has had enough and decided that a change is required. Investment in both more policing and community activities is said to provide a drastic improvement in the quality of living in the suburb.
The complex system designed here details the improvements that can be made and can assist in the decision making of whether more money should be invested into policing or community activities.
Assumptions:
<!--[if !supportLists]-->- <!--[endif]-->The population of Bourke remains 5000 for the entirety of this model (for simplicity). NO births or deaths. NO moving in or out.
<!--[if !supportLists]-->- <!--[endif]-->There will be a delay rate for personal convicted after they leave jail and rehab.
<!--[if !supportLists]-->- <!--[endif]-->30% of offenders are released directly back to the community, while the remaining 70% will be transferred to rehab for rehabilitation.
<!--[if !supportLists]-->- <!--[endif]-->All jail sentences are constant at 6 months (for simplicity)
Variables
<!--[if !supportLists]-->- <!--[endif]-->Police: slider allows us to adjust the amount of policing involved in the town so we can observe the effect of changing police numbers corresponding to amount of crime committed. Range: 5 – 100.
<!--[if !supportLists]-->- <!--[endif]-->Drugs and Alcohol: contribute to increase violence and crime being committed, therefore, maybe regulating the number of drugs and amount of alcohol that both minors and adults consume by police officers. Then hopefully crime can be reduced and even prevented. Range: 0 -20.
<!--[if !supportLists]-->- <!--[endif]-->Community investment: this slider allows us to alter the amount of community investment that Bourke will invest in. Range: 0 – 1.
<!--[if !supportLists]-->- <!--[endif]-->Sporting Investment: Sporting showed great results and improvements to the quality of living in Bourke. Keeping youths and adults occupied in rugby teams is a great time pass and great way to let off some steam for a lot of people. The slider allows us to observe the effect of these investments on the quality of living in Bourke. Range: 0 – 1.
Interesting Results:
Police Slider: 10
Drugs and Alcohol Slider: 17
Community Investment: 0
Sporting Investment: 0
With the sliders set at these numbers, we can observe a constant cycle between residents altering from jail and home, as the crime commit remains relatively constant (very slow descent).
Police Slider: 100
Drugs and Alcohol Slider: 17
Community Investment: 0
Sporting Investment: 0
With the police maxed out, the crime rate still remains relatively constant, will slight decrease but it being so small I can be considered insignificant. From this we can propose that without alternate activities for the residents of Bourke to get involved in, reforming and making a change to the suburb will be a very difficult. Investment into just policing can also be seen as not the best investment of money.
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INTRODUCTION
This model simulates the effect of Police expenditure, Community expenditure and substance abuse (Alcohol and drugs).
This model can be used by community member responsible for making expenditure decision for the community. The variable can be manipulated for see how changes in community engagement and policing expenditure affect other parts of the community.
STOCKS-
Youth- The adolescents living in Bourke
Adult- The adults living in Bourke
Crime- The common crime circulating among the adults of Bourke.
Apprehended- Getting captured by the police
Community Group- Groups formed for the people of Bourke to join. Including development activities, trade-skill learning classes and sports.
Positive Lifestyle- Adults and youth who have improved themselves because of joining these community groups and leading a positive lifestyle.
VARIABLE-
Community Expenditure - The amount of money spent on community groups to develop skills and keep the adults engaged. The variable can be raised to increase the amount of population (Adult or Youth) joining a community group which can lead to a positive lifestyle.
Alcohol and Drugs - This variable acts as an agent to disengage Adult and Youth from the community.
The Policing Expenditure - The number of money spent after police. This variable can be changed to affect the number of people getting apprehended.
ASSUMPTION-
1) 3000 People living in Bourke
2) External Influence - Community groups, Police and Substance abuse
3) 70% of the population are Adult and 30% are Youth
4) Crime- 600
5) Apprehended -
6) Community Group - 300
7) Positive life - 100
8) Jail - 480
SUGGESTED SETTING
Positive Lifestyle lead by the community- Setting the Community Expenditure to a high 80, policing factor to a medium 50 and Substance abuse to a low 30 we will see a surge of positive lifestyle.
High Rate of Engagement- An increase in the Substance abuse variable to 10% shows crime and people in jail increase but the ratio of people engaged in community groups is much higher.
CRIME RATE (HIGHEST) - If Community Engagement Expenditure and Policing Expenditure are reduced to zero the amount of crime increases significantly over time and the amount of people in jail reduces to near zero.
CONCLUSION
A combination of policing and community engagement expenditure is the best solution for the people of Bourke.The policing will gradually reduce the amount of crime and the community development programs will help create a positive lifestyle.
For the most effective outcome, an increase in policing is needed as well as investments in community engagement activities.
The diagram illustrated of community development and unemployment rate in Bourke town. The assumption of Bourke population is set as 3,000, and unemployment population set as 500. While unemployment rate is effective by crime and prisoners. The value of crime is 100, and the initial value of prisoners are 300.
Variable of diagram is shown the relationship between community development and lack of human resource. If Bourke community lack of human resource, it will be negative impact to unemployment and positive impact to crime. While all of the influences will be impact to community development. All in all, the crime in Bourke community is affect to community development and unemployment in community also.
