Kansas City Experiment

Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment

Introduction:

In 1971, Kansas City Police Department Chief Kelley presented the idea of this experiment , this experiment was designed to test that the presence of police cars in the selected area were helping towards reducing crimes or not. It was the first experiment of its kind where different police styles were carried out so to see the consequences.

As Patrolling is one of the main responsibility of Police department, and in US every year thousands of dollars were spent on patrolling to check the effectiveness in controlling crime rate level, either they are still in ...